Word: ning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hang Brüning! The absence in London of Germany's new Iron Chancellor, pale, nasal Heinrich Brüning, did him no good with German extremists. While the London conference was still in progress, Nationalists streamed into a Berlin hall to hear inflammatory speeches by Deputy Paul Bang (Finance Minister in the brief sinister Kapp "Putsch" government) and Alfred Hugenberg's disciple, Fritz Kleiner. Boomed Bang...
Fritz Kleiner leaped to his feet. "Brüning," he shouted, "is reaping the crop that Matthias Erzberger sowed...
...eyed, bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler was not at last week's party in person, but with other Nationalist chiefs he signed a telegram to Chancellor Brüning: "The entire national opposition calls attention, in all due form, to the fact that on the basis of its fundamental principles, it will not consider as legally obligatory on itself any fresh obligations which may be assumed toward France." Schmitz. Back from London came Brüning with nothing lost, little accomplished. Mindful of the Erzberger warning, he slipped off the train at a Berlin suburban station early in the morning...
Press. Two other important decrees passed over Old Paul's desk before Chancellor Brüning went off to the Paris conference. German newspapers were ordered to print "the full text of any statement or correction which the Government orders to be published without any editorial comment in the same edition and on any page that the Government may select." This was to prevent party organs from garbling official decrees to suit their own ends. "Any periodical endangering the public safety" continued the decree, "is liable to confiscation...
Confidence. Final evidence of President Hindenburg's stabilizing power upon his country was seen when the Council of Elders of the Reichstag met on the eve of Chancellor Brüning's departure for Paris. Mere mention of the possibility that Old Paul might resign was sufficient to squelch all talk of convening the Reichstag, to force a vote of confidence in Old Paul's man Brüning...