Word: ller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Seldom has a more 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...
...tale teller, Herr Gustav Müller, a snowy haired Silesian businessman said...
Barb Two: Germany is scrupulously fulfilling her Versailles Treaty obligations. Therefore, reminded Herr Müller, the Allies are reciprocally obligated (by a clause in the Treaty) to reward German good behavior with some such concession as early evacuation of the Rhineland...
Barb Three: Herr Müller implied that M. Briand is a hyprocrite, just talks peace, disarmament...
Code telegrams flew between Geneva and Berlin. President von Hindenburg sent several. Sick-abed German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann sent his confidential secretary flying to Hermann Müller. Plainly, official Germany was amazed, staggered. But Aristide Briand repeated that now wou'J be a good time to negotiate, now while the welkin rang wit!: SCHWEINEHUND...