Word: ning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pale, lantern-jawed Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, plump German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, and millions of swarming grasshoppers descended upon Rome last week. In the Campagna frightened peasants set fire to their fields as black clouds of the insects dropped from the sky, ate wheatfields to the dust and vineyards bare to the stalks, then hopped and whirred away. Gardens were ruined in the city. Streets, roofs and windows were gummy with grasshopper bodies and their brown "tobacco juice...
...deal of food at a great many banquets. They had tea under the towering cypresses of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli. Carefully the statesmen avoided any talk of a political alliance, any mention of the repressed German-speaking minorities in the South Tyrol. Finally came news. Chancellor Brüning and Premier Mussolini made a trade agreement. Germany agreed to lift certain of her emergency restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency to allow Italy to market her surplus crop of oranges and lemons in Germany. Italy agreed to purchase from Germany the same amount of coal she had been...
...plebiscite over 50% of the qualified voters in Prussia (roughly 13,500,000 citizens) had to scrawl JA on their ballots. The tactics of Chancellor Brüning and Premier Braun of Prussia were not to urge citizens to vote against it, but to urge citizens to stay away from the polls altogether. They made but one mistake. So serious did Herren Brüning & Braun consider the situation that they made use of a new emergency press law to force every German newspaper to print a manifesto against the referendum on its front page, in large type, without comment...
Bloodshed. Election came and went and only 37% of the Prussian electorate voted for dissolution of the Diet. Brüning & Braun were saved. But they were not saved without bloodshed. When Communists in Berlin learned that the referendum was failing the most serious street fighting broke out that Germany has seen since the Bloody May Day of 1929 (TIME, May 13, 1929) In Bulow Square police with rifles in their hands patrolled the streets near the Communist headquarters, Liebknecht House. Suddenly, as at a given command, spurts of fire burst from the windows, from nearby roofs. Two police captains...
Somebody did not bother to learn just which train was taking Chancellor Brüning and Foreign Minister Curtius back from Rome last week. As the regular Basle-Berlin express passed over an embankment near Jiiterbog, 40 miles from Berlin, an electrically wired artillery shell exploded beneath it. Nine cars were hurled from the track, rolled down the embankment. Fifteen people were seriously wounded; miraculously, no one was killed. In the dining car a cook was hurled into a cauldron of consomme, critically scalded. Nailed to a telegraph pole near the track was a front page of the Fascist...