Word: reichstager
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...Hitler is discredited in his claim made recently that he would have an absolute majority in the Reichstag. Many of his followers have lost faith in him since he has not made good his promises. Hitler is definitely checkmated and his National Socialist vote is likely to fall still further. A large proportion of former members of his party have voted for Hitler's two worst enemies, the Communists and the Nationalists...
...Papen government has a good chance to carry on for three months more, for in the probable event that the newly-elected Reichstag does not select a ministry of its own, it will be dissolved, with the result that new elections will be ordered for sometime in February. This will give Von Papen's economic program a chance to show results. Von Papen has already achieved some success in his programs, notably a decrease in unemployment, the dropping of reparations payments for the time being, and his success in pleasing nationalist sentiment by his demand for equality in armaments...
...dictatorship or monarchy in Germany at the present time is extremely improbable, inasmuch as Von Hindenburg's influence would be strongly against proposals of this sort. What will probably happen is that both Von Hindenburg and Von Papen will present to the Reichstag when it meets in December a program of constitutional reform in a conservative direction. This program will probably provide for a conservative upper house to act as a check on the Reichstag acting in much the same way as the United States Senate or the English House of Lords. Other proposals may include raising the voting...
...didn't you dissolve the Reichstag when the Socialists, who accepted the Young Plan, which brought the country to ruin, were in power...
...every German knows, the President dissolved the Reichstag (TIME, Sept. 19) for fear it would vote down the President's decree cutting employes' wages and subsidizing employers by granting them tax remissions in the form of negotiable certificates. The Reichstag, after it was dissolved, voted down the President's decree 513 to 32 but von Hindenburg and von Papen successfully held this vote to be illegal. Therefore their cut-&-subsidize decree remains in force...