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...minutes. At times her voice almost died away. Several times the Amazons begged Grandmother to spare herself, but she quelled them with a muttered "Nein! Nein! I will speak on!" It was, as Clara Zetkin well knew, her last grand chance to tongue-lash her ancient enemy Paul von Hindenburg, 84 and unrejuvenated...
...Impeach Hindenburg!" Probably in 1914-15 der feldmarschall had no time to notice that he, his Kaiser and the General Staff were being attacked every day by one Clara Zetkin, editor of a Socialist sheet (she did not join the Communist Party until 1919) which demanded "Proletarian Peace."* Without troubling der feldmarschall, policemen arrested Frau Zetkin in 1915 and kept her under indictment, though she was finally released. Last week she tongue-lashed thus: "Without consult ing the Reichstag, political power in Ger many has for the moment been grasped by a Presidential Cabinet which is the servant of trust...
This statement of course is factual, but Grandmother Zetkin went on: "I demand the impeachment of President von Hindenburg for violation of the German Constitution! . . . Despite its all-powerful character, the [von Papen] Cabinet has failed miserably to solve domestic and foreign problems. . . . The best means to overcome the economic crisis is proletarian revolution! ... I open this Reichstag in fulfillment of my duty as senior member. I hope to live to see the day when, as senior member, I can open the first workers' and peasants' congress of Soviet Germany...
...country home in Neudeck old Paul von Hindenburg let his associates know once and for all that he was through with Hitler...
...posts. Finally possible was a compromise whereby Adolf Hitler might become Chancellor of Germany so long as Kurt von Schleicher remained Minister of Defense with the Nazi storm troops enlisted in the army as unarmed labor battalions. This might have saved everybody's face but for President von Hindenburg. The old Field Marshal whose mind is a little slow at following the niceties of political intrigue put his rheumatic foot down at handing the Chancellorship to the man who had opposed him for the presidency, the man whom he secretly considers a ne'er-do-well opportunist...