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Chancellor Heinrich Brüning dared to do last week that which no German statesman has dared since the days of "The Iron Chancellor," Prince von Bismarck...
...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...
...When Signor Grandi and I parted," said Br'er Briand with a lift of one shaggy eyebrow, "I certainly was under the impression that we had agreed to adopt the most expedient procedure to insure success of the negotiations. . . . Unfortunately a new fact arose. . . . The Leghorn speech was made. Then there was the speech at Florence and finally that at Milan...
...Sunday was feast day of Saints Peter & Paul. His Holiness continued what was becoming a physically painful ordeal, canonized ten more saints. Two were Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, illustrious Jesuit, and Theophilus Da Corte. The others were the first North American saints, all martyred by Indians-Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Gamier (Jesuit priests), René Goupil, John Lalande (laymen) (TIME, April...
This amounted to suggesting that the Government run to cover, hide behind the long black skirts of Dr. Schacht's frock coat. Such a plan did not please HINDENBURG. Wrathfully he told Herr Brüning to take the Finance Ministry himself, bade him clean out a sty of ineptitude which he should have smelled and disinfected long...