Word: ning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly what Chancellor Heinrich Brüning might have expected when he ballyhooed Germany's fiscal depression and growing radicalism on his visit to England, came to pass last week...
...Brüning crack up!" To take a calm view of the Germany which faced Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius on their return to Berlin last week indeed took nerve...
...British seemingly feared that, in expressing sympathy for Germany and hope that the U. S. will agree to scale clown Reparations, they had played a trifle too far into Dr. Brüning's hands. Emotional, sympathetic Host MacDonald had to ask his guest please not to give an interview when he got back to his London hotel. Dr. Brüning promised, kept his promise, gave a subdued interview later "on German soil" at the German Embassy. In a joint MacDonald-Brüning communique the statesmen promised each other respecting Reparations "close collaboration with other governments concerned...
Buckingham to Berlin, As a final British gesture, George V received the Germans at Buckingham Palace. From there "Iron Cross" Brüning set out for home to face German music, loud music, menacing music, stirred by his decree. In Berlin Communists had staged "hunger riots" against "Brüning the Hunger Dictator." Roaring defiance, these rioters broke windows, seized "hunger loot...
...year ago Dr. Brüning said: "After the passage of the Young Plan, Germans thought there would be a decrease of taxation and better times. . . . Imagine their disgust, then, to find themselves confronted with the possibility of increased taxes!" This possibility Chancellor Brüning has made an actuality, raising taxes again and again, raising them a fourth time last week. Knowing the extreme depth of German disgust, advertising it to the world. Heinrich Brüning must have anxiously asked himself as he returned to Berlin: "Is it my Catholic duty to proclaim myself Dictator...