Word: reichstager
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...Reichstag definitely rejected last week by a vote of 242 to 236 a bill, sponsored by Socialists and Communists, which provided that property originally belonging to the former German nobility and seized from them by the Republic should be retained without compensation...
...purpose of the bill, which admittedly never stood the slightest chance of passing, was merely to record publicly the Reichstag's opposition to all such proposals, thereby clearing the way for a national referendum on this highly important question...
These scar-decked swashbuckling heroes cursed because the Reichstag deputies had just signed a bill providing that German officers caught dueling in future, "except upon the most intolerable provocation," will be dishonorably discharged...
...year-old "Father of the U-Boats" is ordinarily content to recline at ease on one of the extreme Fascist benches in the Reichstag. There he is sometimes observed to nod. More often he strokes and fondles his forked beard, remembering, no doubt, how he was forced to resign as Grand Admiral by the Kaiser (1916) and obliged to take refuge in Switzerland after the War because of German popular resentment* against him as the instigator of Germany's eventually disastrous U-boat policy. Such memories, perhaps, have taught him to keep silent. But last week he rose...
Died. Konstantin Fehrenbach, 74, fifth Chancellor of the German Reich, President of the Reichstag under the imperial regime, a statesman of the first rank in both imperial and republican affairs; at Berlin, of pneumonia...