Word: reichstager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener made a bristling, characteristic speech to the Reichstag, last week, roundly declaring that "the present alarming increase in suicides among German soldiers" is directly due to a clause in the Versailles Treaty which prevents Germans from enlisting in the Reichswehr for a period of less than twelve years...
General Erich von Ludendorff and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz declared, last week, that in the general election scheduled for this Spring they will not seek re-election as deputies of the Reichstag...
Because the German Army has long been suspected of Monarchist leanings, the Reichstag harkened attentively last week when new and fiery Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener declared roundly from its rostrum that the forces under his command are now "pledged and loyal" to the Republic...
...most brutally frank and clarifying discussion of the continued French occupation of part of the German Rhineland* took place, last week, at long range, between Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, addressing the Reichstag in smashing style, and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, replying still more vigorously before Le Sénat, in Paris...
Chubby, pink-fleshed Finance Minister Dr. Heinrich Koehler presented to the Reichstag, last week, his Budget for 1928-2Q. He spoke ably but to less than one third of the Deputies, the rest absenting themselves because the Budget details became fully known in the committee stage (TIME, Dec. 5). Balance is to be achieved at 9,502,700.000 marks, a figure higher by 367,500,000 marks than last year, but actually swollen not by extravagance but by the fact that Germany's reparations' burden rises during the coming year 750,000,000 marks to its final...