"Omit Flowers"

Germans were sternly warned not to throw flowers (or anything else) at President von Hindenburg or Chancellor Hitler when they attend the opening of the new

Reichstag in the Garrison Church at Potsdam this week.

Though a layman, the 85-year-old President announced that he would "invoke a blessing on the new Reichstag as an act of State," clergymen being for this purpose superfluous.

In the crypt under the Garrison Church, now the Reichstag Building, Old Paul proposed to lay a wreath on the tomb of FREDERICK THE GREAT.

In a two-hour session the Reichstag was expected to grant the Government complete dictatorial powers until April 1, 1937, or until the present Reichstag should be replaced by another. Afterwards the Government & Deputies expected to hurry from Potsdam to Berlin for a performance of "Chancellor Hitler's favorite opera," Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Meanwhile, by the Government's express decree, Germans were ordered to light "Liberty Bonfires" and stage torchlight parades throughout the land. About 10 p. m. Nazi Storm Troops and Steel Helmets (War Veterans) were to march in a mighty, triumphal torchlight procession down Unter den Linden while Orator Hitler harangued the nation over a compulsory radio hookup of every German station.

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