Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neptune risen from the vasty deep last week and climbed the tribune of the German Reichstag wearing a double nannygoat beard, the sensation could scarcely have exceeded that caused by the "maiden speech" of Grand Admiral Alfred Friedrich von Tirpitz...
...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...
...forestall the "settling out of court" and the handing down at once of further decisions favorable to the Hohenzollerns, the Reichstag (TIME, Feb. 15) passed a bill decreeing that all such suits then pending shall be held in abeyance until June 30, 1926. Before that date it is expected that a compromise among the German political parties will be negotiated, on the basis of which special courts will be set up to adjudicate the claims of the nobility...
...Berlin. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, arrived from Geneva to confer with Foreign Minister Stresemann respecting the details of Germany's forthcoming entry into the League. Later the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag passed a resolution strongly condemning French propaganda, which has been urging that Poland be given a permanent seat on the League Council at the same time as Germany. The German resolution was, of course, couched in purely general terms; did not mention Poland or her great ally France...