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...Berlin the Prussian Diet met in strange session last week while the German Reichstag was assembling New Reichstag. The session was strange because nobody sat on the Prussian Government benches. Irate orators of all parties in the Diet demanded that their Government or at least some member of it must appear! In vain...
...served on the Interallied Rhineland Commission. The von Gayls and de Gails remain on the best of terms, a fact which saved the life of one of them during the War.* When the von Papen Cabinet seized control of Germany and effectively doubled the army by taking over the Prussian state police, no French newspaper could approve, but they did publish human interest stories explaining what beautiful French von Papen speaks, how much more Latin than Teuton he looks...
...suggested four amendments: 1) Establishing an Upper House on the model of the U. S. Senate. 2) Raising the voting age. 3) Revising the proportional system to reduce the number of political parties. 4) Reforming the structure of the Reich to bring about complete harmony between the Reich and Prussian governments. Right Wing papers flatly headlined their stories: LAST CONSTITUTION...
...Reichstag election. Last week Hitler and von Schleicher went to the mat. Handsome Adolf, spurred on by his still more violent lieutenants, held out for complete control of the government. Sly von Schleicher offered him in turn first the Vice Chancellorship, an empty honor, with the Prussian Premiership thrown in; then the Ministry of the Interior and a series of minor posts. Finally possible was a compromise whereby Adolf Hitler might become Chancellor of Germany so long as Kurt von Schleicher remained Minister of Defense with the Nazi storm troops enlisted in the army as unarmed labor battalions. This might...
Yellow, smiling Kurt von Schleicher, moving spirit of Germany's Junker Cabinet, was not at all ruffled by election returns last week. Calmly he proceeded with his plans to reorganize the entire Prussian State Government, fill all offices with militarists...