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...Gave the privilege of the floor to Frau Schreiber, member of the German Reichstag...
Professor von Schulze-Gaevernitz, besides being a distinguished author and teacher, has long been prominent in German political life. He was one of the leading spirits in the drafting of the present Republican constitution, and has for years been a member of the Reichstag. During the war, he was one of the first men to criticise the U-boat warfare and the military police of his country, and his conduct brought upon him severe attacks from Ludendorff and other military leaders. He was one of the leaders of the old "Progressive Popular" party, which opposed Socialism but at the same...
Died. Wilhelm Pfannkuck, 82, oldest Social Democrat in Germany, friend of Karl Marx, La Salle and Engels, Honorary President of the Weimar General Assembly in 1919 and member of the Reichstag since 1884, in Berlin...
...Chancellor, in his inaugural speech to the Reichstag, said: "My fight is directed neither against the Right nor the Left, but against all those who by force and cunning seek to rob the German people of all that is left to us?unity of the nation." (Bravo's from all except the Com- munists.) . . . "The whole nation must at last be filled with the realization that unless the people and the Reich are to sink into a hopeless maelstrom of annihilation the hour for the utmost sacrifices now has come. We must realize that the question...
Someone accused Baroness Katarina von Ohimb, lady member of the Reichstag, of "playing petticoat politics" during the last Cabinet crisis. Retorted the good lady: "You will have to look elsewhere for the guilty parties, and to help your search I will inform you that bowing to the dictates of the present fashion I do not wear petticoats." Die Tageszeitung, reactionary Berlin journal, added ironically: "Every German politician knows that the Baroness wears trousers, not petticoats...