Word: reichstag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carried away by his 99% election responsibility, the Realmleader announced that he would call the new Reichstag and shout his counterproposals at it at the same moment they were being delivered in London. His Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels told him the world had had enough Nazi stump-speaking for the present. A 19-day "oratorical armistice" was thereupon declared for all Germany. Into the silence came bad news. The British had decided to fulfill their legal duty under the Locarno Pact, to engage in military staff conversations with France and Belgium to prepare for possible "unprovoked...
...Hours. It would have been hoped by pro-Germans in the Baldwin Cabinet that Joachim von Ribbentrop would have something new to offer or suggest. Instead his speech to the Council last week was a paraphrase of Orator Hitler's brawling Reichstag speech ten days before. Germany's excuse for remilitarizing the Rhineland remained her contention that France and Russia, by concluding a mutual assistance treaty, violated and thereby voided the Locarno Pact under which remilitarization of the Rhineland is barred as it is also barred under the Treaty of Versailles. Juridically the German case was so feeble...
...Human Blanks. Although Adolf Hitler was in full swing with a campaign to elect an entire new German Reichstag, he had not yet announced this week the names of any of the 661 candidates for whom Germans will vote. Reason: they are all human blanks, der Führer's stooges, and their names do not matter. Latest German electioneering transports were in the remilitarized Rhineland where 25,000 jammed a domed hall from the balcony of which floated a white banner reading, "THE WORLD LOOKS TOWARD HITLER - BUT DER FüHRER LOOKS TO YOU! EACH VOTE...
Magical Wilson. "Men of the German Reichstag," cried Realmleader Hitler, "when in the grey November days of 1918 the curtain was lowered on the bloody tragedy of the Great War ... the views of the President of the United States had reached the ear of the world ... in Fourteen Points! "No people succumbed more completely to the magic power of this fantasy than the Germans. ... We had been dragged into the War, for whose outbreak we were exactly as guiltless, or as guilty, as other peoples. . . . That peace which was intended to be the final stone laid on the cover...
...struggle for German equality as over. . . . We have no territorial demands to make in Europe. . . . Numerous cares have weighed me down and uncounted sleepless nights. ... I never felt myself as Dictator of my people but only and always as its Leader. ... I have therefore decided to dissolve the German Reichstag so that the German people by their ballots may now pass judgment on my leadership and on that of my associates...