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...hundred and seven brown-shirted Fascist Deputies ("Nazis"), followers of bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler, proudly marched into the Reichstag four months ago, took their seats while Socialists shrilly hooted. Week after week Germany nervously waited for something big to happen. Nothing did. Last week the 107 Fascists, plus 41 Nationalists and a hand ful of Agrarians marched out of the Reichstag in disgust muttering dark threats of forming a "rump parliament" of their own at Weimar, scene of the writing and adoption of Germany's present Constitution, which Fascists hate. Sober Germans did not take the Weimar Parliament threat...
Thus, with what they considered irrefutable logic, argued the entire Communist contingent in the Reichstag Committee for revision of the Penal Code last week. Refusing to be convinced, the Committee voted after hot debate a resolution approving chastity for surplus females, denying that they have any "right" to maternity...
...Palace of Versailles, hailed the first German Emperor, Wilhelm I, hailed Prince Otto von Bismarck's proclamation of the "German Realm," the glorious Deutsches Reich! The Realm or Reich remains-as a republic. Last week the victorious Imperial banners of 1871 were unfurled again in the Reichstag (this time by steel-helmeted Republican troops) and old Paul von Hindenburg, President of the Republic, searched his heart. He is 83. To a microphone, directly after the formal Reichstag celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Deutsches Reich, he said, addressing a group of war veterans including some...
Scuttling beasties and things that went flop in the night helped the brown shirted followers of thundering Adolf Hitler last week win what some correspondents called "their most notable political victory since 107 of them were elected to the Reichstag": official suppression of the made-in-U. S. film All Quiet on the Western Front...
Political authorities agreed that the Reichstag if asked to debate and pass these bills one by one would have thrown them all out amid piercing Communist shrieks, frantic Fascist antics. All that the Reichstag was asked to do last week, however, was to ratify or nullify one simple decree signed HINDENBURG...