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Last week Germany's Reichstag and Ministry of Justice, bold in their new republicanism, seriously considered legalizing death by professional prescription. Advocates argued that euthanasia has become common in the Reich. Opponents pointed out that no one man has the moral balance to decide on another's death. It apparently did not occur to the German debaters last week that lethal decisions, before the act, might be left to a jury of physicians or to a court...
...never before held ministerial position or ambassadorial rank. C. Prime Minister Hermann Miiller appointed and despatched officials to administer $5,000,000 in unemployment doles to the 250,000 workmen now locked-out in the Ruhr. The gigantic dole was approved by special act of the Reichstag. With great difficulty the deadlock between employer and employed was temporarily settled, last week, when workmen agreed to resume work on the old wage scale pending a decision by Minister of the Interior Doctor Severing as to whether or not their wages should be rightfully increased. C. Pan-Germans were mightily cheered, last...
With heartfelt sympathy and hearty guttural cheers the Reichstag welcomed back from, a sevenmonths' illness, last week, the nation's acknowledged leader, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, "The German Lloyd George...
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...
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...