Word: reichstag
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...French bonds weakened, the Amsterdam market fell badly. The British Cabinet held a three-hour session, while British statesmen rushed about assuring their people that Great Britain would never, never give way to force. As the date of Führer Adolf Hitler's annual speech to the Reichstag approached (see p. 17), wild rumors circulated that the Führer would: 1) back up Friend Benito Mussolini in a Mediterranean showdown, 2) demand a redistribution of colonies, 3) ask for $10,000,000,000 as reparations for the colonies taken away from Germany after the World...
...German Reichstag, its membership now swollen to 855 members by the addition of Ostmark (Austrian) and Sudeten deputies, met in Berlin's Kroll Opera House one night early this week to hear the address of Führer Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. While Germans listened with pride at the recital of past Nazi victories, an anxious world combed the speech for cues as to what Nazi moves could be next expected...
...surprise to anyone was it that just before the Führer spoke the obedient Reichstag unanimously voted Herr Hitler another four years of autocratic power...
...until 1929 did National Socialism win its first absolute majority in a city election (at Coburg) and make its first significant showing in a provincial election (in Thuringia). But from 1928 on the party almost continually gained in electoral strength. In the Reichstag elections of 1928 it polled 809,000 votes. Two years later 6,401,016 Germans voted for National Socialist deputies, while in 1932 the vote was 13,732,779. While still short of a majority, the vote was nevertheless impressive proof of the power of the man and his movement...
This opinion is based on press reports of a new German law which has been drafted, embodying eight provisions of the utmost severity, and which the Vatican believes may be passed by the Reichstag at any time...