Word: braune
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Food & Agriculture?Baron Friedrich Edler von Braun. Posts & Transport?Baron Paul Eltz von Rübenach...
...Braun, shrewd, had expected some such close shave as this. Therefore, just before the election, he persuaded the old Prussian Diet to pass a bill having the effect that Dr. Braun can only be ousted as Premier if his opponent can muster a majority. Up to the time this measure passed a plurality in the Diet had always sufficed to elect Prussia's Premier. Last week Prussia's shrewd old owl was variously reported as "determined to keep the Premiership at all costs" and as "so appalled by the losses of his own party, not to mention...