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...gentleman whom I believe you have styled "famed Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert." His opinion is probably at least as good as yours. Here it is: "Prince Otto von Bismarck at 28 years of age is the leader of the Nationalist Party in the German Parliament, or Reichstag, one of the leading parties in point of numbers in Germany. . . . What strikes an American is the singular maturity of the young leader of the Nationalists. At 28 he would be two years short of eligibility for the United States Senate, but he has a riper knowledge of the world than four...
Upon this comfortable status quo, President Hindenburg's soldierly determination burst like a bombshell. Once more bedevilled ministers must force bills past irreconcilable opponents. From a six weeks' snooze, dormant prejudices are awakened. Acrimonious disagreements will now be transferred from extra-governmental conferences to the amphitheater of the Reichstag...
...Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann from London, where they signed the Locarno Treaties (see INTERNATIONAL), the Cabinet of the Reich resigned. Chancellor Luther had been obliged to promise that his Government would take this step in order to gain sufficient votes for the Locarno Treaties in the Reichstag (TIME, Nov. 30), the understanding being that the Socialists and others who came to the Treaties' rescue would be rewarded with posts in the next Cabinet. Of course the fact that the three Nationalists in the Cabinet had previously resigned as a protest against the Treaties (TIME...
Throughout the week colorful personalities abounded in the Reichstag as concluding arguments for and against the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. Klara Zetkin, 68-year-old and rejuvenated* "Mother of German Communism," arrived from Moscow for the occasion. On the Nationalist bench the aged Admiral von Tirpitz stroked his pendulous forked beard...
...peace of Europe was widely heralded. The German diehards, however, at once set on foot a scheme to have the ratification so laboriously achieved declared invalid by the Supreme Court of the Reich. Their contentions are: 1) The Constitution of the Reich provides that the Reichstag shall determine whether or not Germany shall go to war, and can be changed only by an amendment requiring a two-thirds majority of the Reichstag; 2) The measure passed last week would make the League and not the Reichstag the chief factor in deciding whether Germany should go to war, and this measure...