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Sudden and drastic was the passage by the German Reichstag, last week, of a bill raising the duty on imported automobile parts from 12% ad valorem to 28%. Enacted to take effect on Jan. 15, 1928, the new measure loomed, last week, as a deadly threat to five U. S. motor manufacturers* which have recently spent $12,000,000 on assembling plants and the development of sales organizations in Germany. Officials of the threatened U. S. group said, last week, that they had had a "working agreement" with the Ministry of Commerce that no such bill would be passed...
...Principal entrance of the Reichstag...
...Reparations Commission has been alarmed to learn that the Reichstag plans for next year a series of great industrial expenditures. Although the large profits of the new German rail-road system under governmental control have been instrumental in the payment on time of the war debts of 1925, 1926, and 1927, the Allies, as represented in the Reparations Commission are trying to discourage any additional investments by the Republic. The annual payments for the first four years increased only from 250,000,000 to 500,000,000 marks, while the payment for the fifth year and all subsequent years...
Prince Otto, son of the late Prince Herbert Bismarck, onetime Secretary of State of Prussia, is 30 years old. At 26 he was elected a Reichstag deputy, being one of the youngest men ever to enter the German Parliament...
Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor, has turned from politics in the Reichstag, where his grandsire carved a memoriable career for himself, to diplomacy, being appointed first secretary of the German legation at Stockholm, capital of Sweden...