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...correspondents that he is President Hoover's pressure-putter. "I am charged with the diplomatic side of the question." said he. "Negotiations may be necessary with certain powers." On July 17 Pressure-Putter MacDonald will go to Berlin, will return the pressure-putting call of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning on Scot MacDonald at "Chequer." (TIME, June 15). Thus world public opinion will be mobilized against expected French opposition...
...Freedom & Bread!" Not without reason is Dr. Brüning called new Germany's "Iron Chancellor." He stood like iron against demands from his own Catholic Center Party that Dr. Curtius be "sacrificed"' to the mob, dropped from the Cabinet...
...hlheim six Communists and a police captain were seriously injured. In Berlin order was preserved and bloodshed prevented only by heroic measures. Example: when 12,000 Communists mass met at the Sportspalast, perspiring policemen patted and searched every one of the 12,000 for arms. As Drs. Brüning and Curtius rode through Berlin on their re-turn Fascists jeered them yelling...
...Germany wake up! Brüning crack...
...want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...