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...France will not permit treaty changes on any account. . . . The German idea of treaty revision is immediate or progressive remaking of the map of Europe at the pleasure of the Reich. . . . Germany returns to the tactics of sabre-rattling to get what she wants...
...taxation without representation!" was the battle cry of the American Revolution. Last week His Excellency General Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the Reich, imposed upon Germans by a stroke of his goose-quill taxes totaling $115,000,000 which had previously been rejected by the Reichstag. After signing this extraordinary decree at midnight, Old Paul went troubled to bed. In the grey Berlin dawn millions of papers were imprinted with the ominous words: VEILED DICTATORSHIP...
Smouldering from this technical defeat by a Prussian Socialist, President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...
...Freytagh-Loringhoven, dashed into print with a polemic against German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, accused him of clumsily letting slip the first opportunity beaten Germany has had to play off two of her former enemies against each other. He declared that Dr. Curtius could have wangled concessions for the Reich from both France and Italy had he been smarter...
...signed the terms of Armistice handed him by Marshal Foch and became undeservedly "The Best Hated Man in Germany." As Chancellor of the Exchequer directly after the War, he wrested his country's railways from the numerous German states, established and coordinated the national railway of the Reich, today a model of speed and punctuality...