Word: reichstag
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...Chancellor his Chief of Staff," but "cooperated with Parliament in the manner of an old gentleman who likes order in his household." By virtue of Paragraph 48 of the Weimar Constitution, his chancellor could issue decrees "on the sole sanction of the President's signature." If the Reichstag objected, the President could send it home...
...Congress, like the Reichstag, is not consulted...
Hitler convinced Thyssen that he was simply the "pacemaker" for the coming restoration of the monarchy. Goring showed him the smoking ruins of the Reichstag, told him it was a Communist crime, and Thyssen believed that also. But after two years of the dictatorship, Thyssen took down the swastika from his house and communicated no further with the Nazi leaders, except for periodic protests. He resigned as a state councillor of Prussia, demanded that his councillor's salary be stopped. The Nazis kept on sending...
...Berlin announced that Hungarian Communist Bela Kun had been taken prisoner by counter-revolutionary Ukrainians. (Last previous report on Bela Kun was that he had been purged in Russia in 1939.) Another from Berlin: Reichstag Fire-famed Georgi Dimitroff would soon be named special Soviet emissary...
...liberal tycoon, Siemens wanted above all else a democratic Germany cooperating with other democracies. He helped Economist Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht form the Democratic Party of the Weimar Republic, served four years as a member of the Reichstag...