Word: reichstag
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Stroking his jowls with a quiet gesture of satisfaction, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning made his way out of the oblong chamber of the Reichstag one day last week, strode back to his office through a swarm of Deputies and lobbyists who proffered congratulations...
...exactly Herr Bruning came to power comparatively unknown (TIME, April 7, 1930) except as a protege of old Paul von Hindenburg. Last week he stood at the German zenith. He had just put through an unpopular budget against hot opposition, ahead of time. He had forced the niggling Reichstag to dissolve until October. And he had fashioned a sharp spit on which to cook the goose of Adolf Hitler, "the pocket Mussolini...
...Germans were told precisely what the Socialist Reichstag had in mind last week when it proposed to double the surtax on German incomes: to buld a sister to the Ersatz Preussen...
...Wilhelm Külz, former German Minister of Interior, in the main lobby of the Reichstag. He grappled, disarmed the lunatic...
...days later the Fascistless Reichstag passed a resolution that genuinely worried European chancellories: a demand for an impartial commission to study the origins of the World War, to settle the problem of War guilt. Observers realized that if such an international commission should deny the sole guilt of Germany and her allies as set forth in the Treaty of Versailles (and most historians do deny it as they also deny her complete innocence) Germans would have what might seem to them a legitimate excuse to stop paying reparations...