Word: reichstager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hindenburg's Letter: "The Reich's foreign and domestic political situation demands a strong workable Government. A Government will be able to function more successfully if it is supported by a majority in the Reichstag.* The construction of such a majority through inclusion of the Left parties is for the present at least impossible. Efforts to create a Government supported only by the middle parties have failed...
...therefore request you, Herr Chancellor, to undertake the construction of a Government on the basis of a majority of the middle class parties in the Reichstag with the most effective haste...
Crisis. When Foreign Minister Stresemann returned from Geneva a fortnight ago, bringing important concessions from the Allies†, the Marx Cabinet seemed secure amid generally favorable comment from the press and Reichstag deputies. Those who sought the Cabinet's overthrow had no quarrel with the foreign policy of able Dr. Stresemann. They left him out of the debate last week, and he will almost certainly succeed himself as Foreign Minister in whatever cabinet may be formed. Instead, the storm of opposition burst upon War Minister Otto Gessler, who has ten times filled that post...
...from January to May, 1926. A ponderous German "crisis" which may last for weeks or months before a new Chancellor is chosen loomed. During this period one more attempt will be made to form a stable "Big Coalition": the goal toward which successive Chancellors have striven in vain. The Reichstag adjourned last week until January...
Pictures and books and toys insidious were the "exhibits" piled high last week upon a great round table in the lobby of the German Reichstag and labeled Schund und Schmutz (Trash and Smut). Deputies, austere or mirthful, looked at them. To do so was their duty. They were about to vote upon the third and final reading of the bill creating a censorship committee (TIME, Nov. 29), Irate, the opponents of the bill pointed out that the Bible and at least half the classics of German literature could be suppressed as "obscene" if the law went into effect. None...