Word: reichstagers
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Seldom has a more terrific tempest been brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete...
Replying to Socialist arguments that no warboats would be as good as only one, Defense Minister Groener said, addressing the Reichstag dramatically in the present tense: "The armored Cruiser A is probably the most effective of its tonnage in the world...
With meticulous exactitude Socialist Scheidemann writes that he was eating a bowl of "thin 1918 soup" in the Reichstag Restaurant when members of his party plunged in, grabbed him by the arm, and declared that he must appear on a balcony of the Reichstag to address a large, incipiently revolutionary throng...
Though General von Ludendorff may be merely passing through a phase of mental aberration, he has been at least temporarily cold-shouldered by all of the political associates who, less than a year ago, acknowledged his leadership as head of an extreme Monarchist faction in the Reichstag...
Though the recent election gave his party a huge plurality in the Reichstag (TIME, May 28), Socialist Muller at first failed for 17 days to assemble a Cabinet able to command a majority. Nine major parties continued deadlocked. Jeers were heard about "A Cabinet by Christmas!" No one seemed much impressed by Hermann Müller's owlish spectacles, low voice, plaintive air. And yet the Socialist plurality is now too large for a Cabinet to be formed by a Prime Minister of any other party...