Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dominant in Germany is Prussia, a State which is 62$ of the Fatherland. Dominant in Prussia since 1919. when the German Republic was founded, has been the Socialist Party-the party with a plurality. Last week this 13-year-old Socialist dominance was shaken. Fascism emerged from the Diet election as Prussia's No. 1 party thus...
...People's Party, famed when it was led by the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann, collapsed like a pricked balloon. The Communists barely held their own. Triumphant Adolf Hitler, who has stumped the Fatherland by air at a man-killing pace, rolled up for his Fascist Party in Prussia the imposing plurality...
Nevertheless bald and owlish Dr. Otto Braun, the Socialist Leader who has ruled as Premier of Prussia for eleven years at the head of a rock-firm Socialist-Centrist coalition, was still last week in power. It was estimated that Dr. Braun will be able to muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster...
...before the election, he persuaded the old Prussian Diet to pass a bill having the effect that Dr. Braun can only be ousted as Premier if his opponent can muster a majority. Up to the time this measure passed a plurality in the Diet had always sufficed to elect Prussia's Premier. Last week Prussia's shrewd old owl was variously reported as "determined to keep the Premiership at all costs" and as "so appalled by the losses of his own party, not to mention the Fascist gains, that he feels he must resign...
...Brown House" last week the Fascist leader predicted the election of only 150 Prussian Fascist Deputies, and other German estimates of course were lower. In Prussia there are potent Socialist and proletarian bulwarks, still seemingly strong enough to "Stop Hitler...