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...Wilhelm II ruled by divine right," quipped a Berlin humorist recently, "but Chancellor Brüning rules as a divine duty...
Zentrum to Chancellor. His first duty, young Dr. Brüning felt, was to strive as an underling of the Catholic Zentrum Party in Westphalia - his chief and successful effort being to organize Catholic Zentrum trade unions. Came the War and sterner duties. Bespectacled Dr. Brüning became, in an amazingly short time, be spectacled Captain Brüning, commander of a crack Prussian machine gun unit. In action he won the Iron Cross, both second and first class, returned to Westphalia wounded, hard...
...crazy post-War years of inflation, Dr. Brüning moved with the Catholic Centre from staunch Imperialism to staunch Republicanism. Six years ago his party put him into the Reichstag. There his sheer erudition made him valuable to politicians who needed to ask questions before talking about budgets and such...
Quietly, modestly, but authoritatively and rapidly Dr. Brüning forged upward to Party Leadership which he assumed in 1929. He was and is close to Dr. Gottfried Treviranus, "Hindenburg's Colonel House." It was as the potent old President's protege that Dr. Brüning became German Chancellor (TIME, April 7, 1930) before he was known to Who's Who. In amazement people all over Germany asked each other, "Who is our new Chancellor...
...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...