Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheme, as revealed, was designed to operate, if possible, without bloodshed, along semi-constitutional lines. The Cabinet was first to be unhorsed in the Reichstag and President von Hindenburg pressed to call in as Chancellor the arch-Monarchist Dr. Neumann, who was then to form a Cabinet from such notorious Fascists as Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "the German Northcliffe," subsidizer of numerous Monarchist papers, and General von Moehl, one of the most ruthless of soldiers...
...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...
...Reichstag proceedings upon this point last week were, however, of such a routine nature that only Deputy Scheidemann (Socialist) spoke. He accused Wilhelm of Doorn of high treason, charging that he betrayed secrets of importance to the late Tsar Nicholas. During Herr Scheidemann's tirade, many Deputies of the Right quietly left the hall-heeded not when he went on to accuse Wilhelm's sympathizers of "deception, corruption, and doglike servility...
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...