Word: bismarckians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chorus,"* spoke volumes. It meant that, at the end of four years of absolute power granted him originally by the German Reichstag, freely elected (TIME, April 3, 1933), Adolf Hitler is seen by all Europe as a portentous figure, no longer an upstart but a German Chancellor of almost Bismarckian stature, a figure clothed with the aura as well as the fact of Power. Thus Der Führer was recently painted in what is today his favorite portrait (see cut). Up went the Opera House curtain in Berlin last week, and the world strained its ears as Messiah Hitler...
Once famed as Germany's "Iron Man" because of his Bismarckian manner at conferences, straight-necked Dr. Schacht is genial, kindly, twinkle-eyed among friends. Enemies (mostly people he has outguessed) call him a disgusting opportunist with the vanity of a Pompadour and the ambition of a Napoleon. It is better to call him Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, his father having been a cover-to-cover reader of the works of Horace Greeley. Last week Dr. Schacht said...
...Fortnight ago the new iron chancellor, who won the "Iron Cross" during the War and was hand-picked for his mettle by old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME, April 7). dissolved the Reichstag by presidential decree when it would not vote the money he wanted. Last week came the final Bismarckian move. Herr Brüning placed his rejected Budget Bill before Old Paul in the form of a decree, and the President, like Kaiser Wilhelm I before him, signed...