Word: reichstager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Probably because Cruiser A is already in course of construction, the Reichstag voted 255 to 203 to complete the job. Instantly it began to seem incredible and silly that anyone had ever taken this teapot-tempest seriously or believed that Old Paul von Hindenburg might resign...
Seldom has a more terrific tempest been brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete...
Replying to Socialist arguments that no warboats would be as good as only one, Defense Minister Groener said, addressing the Reichstag dramatically in the present tense: "The armored Cruiser A is probably the most effective of its tonnage in the world...
Defeated, as the Reichstag settled to business last week, was a freak bill presented by Deputies of the extreme and reckless Right. Its essence: "Germany shall discontinue Dawes Plan payments and use the money to build an Army and Navy adequate for the Fatherland's defense...
With meticulous exactitude Socialist Scheidemann writes that he was eating a bowl of "thin 1918 soup" in the Reichstag Restaurant when members of his party plunged in, grabbed him by the arm, and declared that he must appear on a balcony of the Reichstag to address a large, incipiently revolutionary throng...