Word: reichstag
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Striking through their duly elected Reichstag, the German people hurled at President Paul von Hindenburg last week the most savage rebuke possible, short of revolution...
...Speaker's Chair when the new Reichstag met for its first business session this week sat 210 Ib. of Fascism. Not merely fat but broad, big-boned and mighty-muscled, Speaker Hermann Goring cut the figure of a squat ogre. But slender and insignificant of mien. Chancellor Franz von Papen was present, carrying ostentatiously under his arm a potent slingshot & pebble: an undated decree dissolving the Reichstag signed by President von Hindenburg...
...Elected for the first time in the history of the German Republic a set of Reichstag vice-speakers (three) among whom there is no Socialist...
...twelve years, from 1920 until last week, the Reichstag's Speaker has always been Socialist Paul Lobe (except for a few months in 1924). Thus the Fascists visibly replaced the socialists as Germany's dominant party...
...Berlin the Prussian Diet met in strange session last week while the German Reichstag was assembling New Reichstag. The session was strange because nobody sat on the Prussian Government benches. Irate orators of all parties in the Diet demanded that their Government or at least some member of it must appear! In vain...