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...bibliography of works published" by members of the university community during the last year showed that President Nicholas Murray Butler was the most prolific scrivener of them all. His 100 manuscripts-ranging from verses written for Manhattan's smart, democratic Lotos Club to an address before the German Reichstag- outstripped in number the voluminous writings of Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of President Hoover's Commission on Law Observance & Law Enforcement. (Chairman Wickersham is a trustee of Barnard College, Columbia unit...
Prussia is two-thirds of Germany. Her legislature has 450 members, nearly as big as the Reichstag (577 seats). Hitlerites, members of the Stahlhelm and other extreme Nationalists recently rushed through a bill calling for a plebiscite on the question: Should the Prussian Diet be dissolved immediately as unrepresentative of Prussian opinion? The Reich Government fought it bitterly, for if the Hitlerites should gain control of the Diet it would be comparatively simple for them to gain the Reichstag as well and form a new government. Hitlerites urging the referendum were suddenly joined by their old enemies the Communists...
Weizmann supporters called the Revisionists '"Hitlerites" during the Congress last fortnight. Keeping obligingly in character, they shouted back: "Red slaves! Go to Moscow!" Impressively they arose during a later debate, walked out of the meeting just as dramatically as Hitlerites walked out of the Reichstag last February. Next day they walked back in, minus Leader Jabotinsky who announced he would take a six-month leave. One Revisionist, Abraham Lang, tore down a blue-&-white Zionist flag because he thought the Congress had "betrayed Zionism's ideals." He was tried last week, suspended from Zionist activities until next December...
...part people seemed to remember too vividly for repetition the horrors of Germany's other great crisis, the inflation period of 1923. There was no direct parliamentary opposition. For the past year Iron Chancellor Brüning has managed to rule Germany as a semi-dictator, forcing the Reichstag into a three-month dissolution and ruling by Presidential decree...
Confidence. Final evidence of President Hindenburg's stabilizing power upon his country was seen when the Council of Elders of the Reichstag met on the eve of Chancellor Brüning's departure for Paris. Mere mention of the possibility that Old Paul might resign was sufficient to squelch all talk of convening the Reichstag, to force a vote of confidence in Old Paul's man Brüning...