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Puffing a menthol-cooled cigaret, Prince August Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, fourth son of Wilhelm II, sat in the Visitors' Gallery of the German Reichstag one day last week calmly enjoying a scene of such absolute bedlam, such screeching pandemonium that his smoking passed unchallenged by the ushers...
...Kikeriki!" "Comrades!" roared Communist Deputy Ernst Torgler as the Reichstag convened, "Do you know that working men are being clubbed to the ground outside this building? Donner und Blitz! What a way for this Reichstag to open!" In mass formation, with military tread, eyes front, the 107 new Fascist Deputies entered the Reichstag. When it last met they numbered twelve. Flushed with their great election victory (TIME, Sept. 22) they marched in coatless, each swelling out his Fascist "brown shirt," each flaunting the Fascist swastika on his left arm, each in khaki flare-pants, swank black leather boots-all proud...
Iron Adolf Hitler, Fascist victor in the last election (TIME, Sept. 22), warned iron President Paul von Hindenburg that if iron Chancellor Heinrich Brüning again dissolves the Reichstag and continues to rule Germany under the "emergency clause" (Article 48) of the Constitution, "then the Brüning Government is illegal and will provoke a large part of the German people also to resort to illegal methods...
Chancellor Brüning stuck to his threat, hammered out for enactment (by decree, if the Reichstag refuses to vote it next week) a Reform program which metal-minded German editors at once called "the iron broom of destiny...
Program points: 1) salaries of all high federal and state officials, from President von Hindenburg to Deputies of the Reichstag and State Diets, to be cut 20%; 2) wages of all other federal, state and municipal functionaries, including German State Railwaymen, cut 6%; 3) rejuggling of taxation to avert an estimated $250,000,000 deficit at the end of the fiscal year (the tobacco tax, for example, being raised $40,000,000) plus a $125,000,000 "Reform Loan" to be floated (probably by Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. heading an international group...