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...terrific tempest been brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first...
Replying to Socialist arguments that no warboats would be as good as only one, Defense Minister Groener said, addressing the Reichstag dramatically in the present tense: "The armored Cruiser A is probably the most effective of its tonnage in the world...
Minister of Defence?Lieutenant General Wilhelm Groener (Independent...
Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener made a bristling, characteristic speech to the Reichstag, last week, roundly declaring that "the present alarming increase in suicides among German soldiers" is directly due to a clause in the Versailles Treaty which prevents Germans from enlisting in the Reichswehr for a period of less than twelve years...
Fulminating against the twelve-year term, General Groener cried: "It is inhuman! Our young men enter the army enthusiastically, but after two or three years many begin to get restless under the necessarily strict discipline. Being unable to obtain a discharge the men become morose and despondent, with the result that some end their lives in fits of insanity...