Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to General von Schleicher, the most prominent new Cabinet figure is Baron Wilhelm von Gayl, Minister of Interior. Charged with the federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...
Fascists beat Communists in the Prussian Diet last week, 162 to 57. It was not a vote but a fight. The Diet adjourned immediately for redecoration and extensive repairs...
...Control of Japan by men of politics instead of men of the sword is a new-fangled arrangement, dating de jure from the reign of Emperor Meiji who introduced an Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...
...Braun, shrewd, had expected some such close shave as this. Therefore, just 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...
...Catholic bishops have warned their German flocks against Catholic Hitler, terming him a firebrand contemptuous of authority, rumors soon sprang up in Berlin that enough Catholic Deputies of the Centre would vote with the Fascists and Nationalists to give Herren Hitler & Hugenberg an absolute majority with control of the Prussian Diet...