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Stolidly believing that theirs is not to reason why, square-headed Berlin police seized fat and foxy Premier Otto Braun of Prussia on July 20 and forcibly barred him from his office. Last week Dr. Braun came back. Waddling up the steps while a friendly throng shouted "Hail, Freedom!", he exposed his bald head, bowed several times from the waist, replaced his hat, entered his office, took off his hat and sat down once again as Premier of Prussia. "I do wish," said Dr. Braun, "that President von Hindenburg had consulted me before signing that decree. It is not enjoyable...
Reichsgericht. Premier Braun was back in his office as the result of doings last week in Leipzig, aloof seat of the Reichsgericht or German Supreme Court. In its dim and stately chamber, Chief Justice Dr. Erwin Bumke handed down what would have been a momentous decision if it had not been one of the most ambiguous verdicts ever given by a Supreme Court...
...ever there was a Socialist Garden of Eden it was the Free State of Prussia from 1920 until this year. Its "fall" was dramatic (TIME, Aug. 1). Socialist Dr. Otto Braun who had been Premier of Prussia for eleven years was driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that...
Armed with this historic document, the aristocratic "Cabinet of Monocles" moved next morning with the precision of the old Imperial Army which they are so eager to recreate. The entire Socialist Cabinet of Premier Otto Braun of Prussia was declared deposed. Socialist Minister of the Interior Karl Severing showed fight, refused to leave the Wilhelmstrasse except by force. A squad of steel-helmeted soldiers arrived, their officers carrying clanking sabres in the old manner. Karl Severing reconsidered...
...telephone to a peculiar settlement of that issue last week. The Fascists, though they have a plurality in the Prussian Diet and are therefore entitled by tradition to expect that the other parties will join in electing a Fascist Premier of Prussia, agreed last week that Socialist Dr. Otto Braun may remain Prussian Premier without opposition until the Federal election June...