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...taxation without representation!" was the battle cry of the American Revolution. Last week His Excellency General Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the Reich, imposed upon Germans by a stroke of his goose-quill taxes totaling $115,000,000 which had previously been rejected by the Reichstag. After signing this extraordinary decree at midnight, Old Paul went troubled to bed. In the grey Berlin dawn millions of papers were imprinted with the ominous words: VEILED DICTATORSHIP...
...Braun remained inflexible. Suddenly the acting Stahlhelm leaders, who had previously refused to treat with Socialist Braun, called upon him. They promised that if allowed to parade before Old Paul they would not thereafter stage military maneuvres in the Rhineland. This promise was really a Hindenburg-Stahlhelm capitulation. Dr. Braun accepted it, gave per-mission for the Stahlhelm parades. Disgruntled, Old Paul put Rhenish Prussia back on the itinerary of his triumphal tour (see below...
Next follows a thoroughgoing Communist "expose" of members of the present German Government, uniformly describing them from President von Hindenburg down as "Capitalist bloodsuckers, betrayers of the German proletariat...
...when he brought the Budget in that it would exactly balance. Last week he discovered instead a deficit of $178,800,000. Members of the Brüning Government, a "Cabinet of Nobodies," know well enough that their tenure of power is dependent on the will and prestige of HINDENBURG. Sheepishly in the Red House the Chancellor was understood to have proposed that Germany's famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, recently Director of the Reichsbank, should be made Finance Minister...
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...