Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position of the Berlin Government was most obscure. Beyond making a protest to the French authorities for the disarming of the German police in Bonn, Chancellor Stresemann maintained an ominous silence. The French returned the arms they had seized to the police...
Unconfirmed rumors were abroad that the Berlin Government had offered to recognize a Rhineland Republic within the Reich. The offer, which may have been made, is not likely to be accepted owing to the fervent hostility of the Separatists toward Prussia, which is the dominating State in the Reich...
Relations between Berlin and Munich (capital of Bavaria) were badly strained. President Ebert of Germany discussed General Lossow, commander of the Reichswehr (Reich Defence Force) in Bavaria, and replaced him with General Baron Kress von Kressenstein. Dr. von Kahr, Dictator of Bavaria, reappointed General Lossow to command of the Reichswehr, thus openly defying Berlin. By establishing a trusteeship authority over the Federal troops garrisoned in Bavaria, Dr. von Kahr virtually "kidnapped" 12,000 men. Baron von Kressenstein asked the Berlin Government to relieve him of his uncomfortable position. Dr. von Kahr and Minister President von Knilling declared that Bavaria...
...reported to have sent 50,000 troops to General Müller, Reichswehr Commander in Saxony, and instructions to restore and preserve constitutional conditions in the Free State. These orders were transmitted by General Müller to the people and to the Government. The position appeared to be that the Berlin Government intended to crush a revolt by Communist Saxony with the utmost severity in order thereby to please monarchist Bavaria...
Thuringia. The Republic of Thuringia, on the borders of Bavaria and Saxony, asked Berlin for military protection in case of trouble between her two neighbors. (Minister President Zeigner of Saxony stated a fortnight ago [TIME, Oct. 22] that he would oppose monarchical activities by force of arms.) Minister President Fröhlich of Thuringia stated that he thought Saxony should leave Berlin to deal with Bavaria, but that if Bavarian troops cross the frontier "they will certainly find us Thuringians allied with our neighbors, the Saxons, for defense of the Federal Republic...