Word: reichstag
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...Reichstag Election (1928): 800,000 votes...
Thus the brown tide is steadily rising, checked only by a coalition of all other German parties except the Nationalists and Communists. This major fact?the rising Fascist tide?President von Hindenburg's tremendous personal victory tended to obscure last week. In the 1930 Reichstag Election, Herr Hitler's "Joke Party" rose from ninth to second parliamentary rank (TIME, Sept. 12, 1930). On the basis of last week's presidential returns the Fascist Party is now first in Germany. It cannot, of course, assume first rank in parliament until there is another Reichstag Election?which President von Hindenburg and Chancellor...
...insufficient to overcome Hindenburg's total of 19 million votes," he continued. "Hindenburg was popular personally, as was shown by the fact that he polled a larger vote than could have been secured by the parties supporting him if they had been voting for seats in a Reichstag election. Hindenburg's election shows the sturdy common sense of the majority of the German people, in spite of their difficulties and humiliating international position and in spite of the oratorical promises of Hitler...
...record of Fascist progress in Germany is that Herr Hitler's party polled 6,500,000 votes in the Reichstag election of 1930 and last week polled over eleven million votes...
...utterances, Dr. Butler serves the U. S. as an unofficial ambassador-at-large. He is at home anywhere. He is a member of the Institut de France, was the first unofficial foreign visitor ever to be received by the French Academy. He has advised the British Cabinet, lectured the Reichstag in German...