Word: ning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serious obstruction in sight. Puffing comfortably on a large pale cigar, he admitted a group of correspondents to his office last week and delivered himself of a few random observations. As everyone knows, smiling General von Schleicher has a high opinion of Republican ex-Chancellor Brüning's character and ability. Privately he has no such regard for his present political ally, bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler. Subtly as the great Metternich whom he so much admires, General von Schleicher expressed these ideas last week...
...Germany's former error was a false optimism. . . . Dr. Brüning is an ascetic, he always told the people the truth, but after a while the masses always become unreceptive to asceticism, particularly when they are called upon to make sacrifices without understanding why. They will submit to the greatest privations, I think, if only one talks the language that touches the heart...
Return of Brüning. There is one way that the Nationalist groups can have a parliamentary majority without dissolving the Reichstag: they might force the Junker Cabinet to declare the Communist Party outlaw, thus throwing out 89 Deputies and giving the Right Wing a working majority of 36. The morning after election day Nazi papers loudly demanded just such a move. It seemed unlikely that the "Cabinet of Monocles" would comply. Those 89 Communists represent over 5,000,000 voters of a very dangerous temper. The Communist Deputies will be extremely useful to Herr von Papen from time...
...Brüning. Meanwhile a new Reichstag election (which will cost the impoverished Government about $5,000,000) was only a week off and the Republic's bravest champion, pale ascetic former Chancellor Bruning, was vigorously campaigning, attracting the most enthusiastic crowds he has had in years wherever he spoke. Left-wing Socialists, his adversaries for years, were ready to vote for him to stop either von Papen or Hitler. Most observers rated his chances slim for next week, but by no means out of the German political picture...
Social Democrats (Brüning...