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...Communists and Socialists about German cities last week in an effort to rouse sluggish citizens for the great Referendum (TIME, June 21 et ante) held to deprive Wilhelm II and the erstwhile German nobility without compensation of property valued at five billion gold marks previously seized by the Reich...
...lips by Fate or Chance. It is scarcely realized today through what extraordinary vicissitudes he has passed. "The Supreme War Criminal" (1918)-Mr. Lloyd George haying actually won an election with the slogan "Hang the Kaiser!" : "Wilhelm of Doom" (1926)-Herr Hohenzollern having already received from the Reich a sum equivalent to $1,000 for every day since his abdication...
...flag will be devised and submitted to the Reichstag by the Cabinet; but until that is approved or rejected all German consulates (except at inland European towns) will continue to fly the merchant marine flag (greatly resembling the old imperial flag) as well as the ordinary banner of the Reich...
Plebiscite. June 20 has been set by the Cabinet as the date for Germany's long heralded showdown between the Monarchists and the Left parties: the great plebiscite (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) to determine whether the Reich may retain without compensation property seized from onetime German nobility and royalty...
Herr Luther chances to possess more ability than wit. His enemies succeeded in making it appear that the Cabinet had taken a momentous decision detrimental to the Reich without consulting the Reichstag. Flustered, Herr Luther attempted to evade collision by announcing that he would postpone the execution of the flag order until August. Then, witless, he offered the ridiculous explanation that several months' time would be needed to communicate the order to German consulates in different parts of the world...