Word: ning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chastened mood the Reichstag reconvened last week from a six weeks recess, found that President Paul von Hindenburg had just legalized by executive decree 26 drastic retrenchment bills prepared by Prime Minister Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning...
...adjourn the Reichstag for six weeks. Such a move would have been madness earlier in the week. But today was today. By a vote of 323 to 236 the Reichstag rejected Communist and Fascist motions censuring the Government. Next by a vote of 325 to 237 Herr Brüning was given a free hand with his budget-balancing program which involves a new $125,000,000 foreign loan (TIME, Oct. 13). Then came a setback. Amid extremist whoops the Reichstag voted 395 to 147 an amnesty to all political prisoners who have not actually attacked a member...
...cannot obtain such support for himself or arrange it for some other "moderate," Prime Minister Brüning, according to his closest friends last week, was agreed with Old Paul that they must "save the nation from itself" by adjourning the new Reichstag (only just elected) and embarking on a high-handed program of rule by "executive decree"?in other words Dictatorship, a procedure made quasi-legal by article 48 of the German Constitution conferring on the President "extraordinary powers...
...German government feared a Putsch, its leaders hid their emotions well. Both President von Hindenburg and his protege, Prime Minister Brüning (whose Catholic Centre party gained seven seats in the election) ended the week by going off for a rustic, post-election rest...
With these paramount facts in mind the result of the election becomes a lucid alternative: either irascible Prime Minister "Iron Cross" Brüning, protege of President von Hindenburg, will refuse to accept defeat, dissolve the Reichstag a second time as he did last summer (TIME, July 28) and attempt to continue ruling by executive decree; or as is much more likely Herr Brüning's "Concentration Cabinet" of the Centre will quietly give way to a Left-Centre "Grand Coalition" of these same parties plus the Socialists. In either case Reds and Browns would be excluded, may be counted...