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...last French soldiers from German soil. In Germany it was the most momentous hour since the Armistice. Bonfires blazed along the Rhine from Switzerland to Holland. Churchbells rang in towns throughout Germany. In Berlin a battery of howitzers shook the Linden trees with an earsplitting 21-gun salute. The Reich swam in beer...
...soldiers may well feel proud of this intercession of the Lord. Today we are thinking of those who fell. They marched to the battlefront praying, trusting in the righteousness of their cause. True to their oath, they died for the Kaiser and the Reich, for German fame and honor. We owe it to them to assert all our strength to retain that for which they died. We promise to do that in unshakable faith and with our eyes fastened upon the Savior of the world, who once prayed also for German soldiers. Then we, too, shall earn the praise...
...opening the case, Chancellor Brüning could, under Article 48 of the German Constitution, make himself virtual dictator of the Reich for a period of three months which must pass before a new Reichstag could be elected and assembled. Crack! went the invisible Hindenburg whip and the Reichstag deputies in their confusion and buzzing excitement resembled an arena-full of balky bulls...
...promote the country's "economic health.'' He did not even mention these live political issues: 1) Shall Germany build a second "pocket battleship" like the famed Ersatz Preussen? (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) 2) Along what lines will the Government administer the new Defense-of-the-Reich Act? (TIME, March 31) 3) What is to be done about Thuringia's Minister of Interior, redoubtable Dr. Frick, who continues to defy the central German Government about reactionary military organizations and such matters? 4) Along what lines does the Foreign Office propose to work out satisfactory commercial rapprochement with...
Most German cabinets since the Reich became a Republic have been "minority governments," squeaking along with unstable majorities in the Reichstag, seldom strong enough to be resolute except while the country was facing some long-drawn-out crisis in which party differences could be sunk and enemies could unite...