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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Berlin, fascist monarchists publish President von Hindenburg's letter opposing the June 20 referendum to expropriate royal families' estates for aiding the unemployed and poor, threatening civil war if it passes.
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(Special to The Daily Worker)
BERLIN, June 10.—Desperate attempts are being made by the fascist monarchist forces to defeat the dispossession referendum, which is to take place on June 20. Every available propaganda source is being used in their fear that the referendum expropriating the royal families may pass and the proceeds from the sale of the vast estates be used to aid the unemployed, the victims of the imperialist world war and the poor peasants of Germany.
The monarchists have made public the letter of President von Hindenburg to State Secretary von Loebell, in which Hindenburg declares that he is opposed to taking away the vast estates from the royal families and intimates that if the referendum passes he will, because of his "allegiance to the royal family" which he "has served for many years," refuse to carry it out.
The publication of this letter in a number of German newspapers was looked on as a most desperate attempt on the part of the fascist and monarchist groups to defeat the referendum.
It was declared that this letter would only be used in case the sentiment of the German workers and farmers was such that the referendum might win. In that case the fascists and monarchists declared they would publish the letter and by threatening a civil war defeat the referendum.
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Berlin
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June 10
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hindenburg declares opposition and potential refusal to implement referendum due to allegiance to royal family; monarchists threaten civil war to defeat it.
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Fascist monarchist forces publish Hindenburg's letter to State Secretary von Loebell opposing the dispossession referendum on June 20, which aims to expropriate royal estates for the unemployed, war victims, and poor peasants; they plan to use it to incite civil war if the referendum appears likely to pass.