Word: reichstagers
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...against an enemy who adopts atrocious weapons or methods first. This doctrine of "rightful reprisals" was made last week the basis of a five-volume defense of German War practices. Onetime Minister of Justice Dr. Johannes Bell presented the report, entitled "International Law In the World War" to the Reichstag. The five volumes represent seven years of labor by a "nonpartisan" board of German scholars appointed by the Weimar Constitutional Assembly (1919). The Committee concludes that, in nearly all instances, weapons discountenanced by international law were first employed by the Allies and then adopted in "rightful reprisal" by The Central...
...events proved last week how utterly Republican Germany has laid aside the mentality of Imperial days: 1) The Reichstag voted 323 to 41 to continue for two more years the Protection of the Republic Bill, debarring Wilhelm II from returning to Germany. 2) His Excellency General von Pawels announced that under his direction there have been destroyed the last of the fortifications along the Polish frontier which Germany agreed to scrap in return for concessions from the Allies (TIME...
Paul Loebe, President of the German Reichstag...
Vote. Although Finance Minister Koehler presented his budget to the Reichstag, with his most funereal compliments and observations, the Deputies passed it 238 to 166-only the Communists, Socialists and a few so-called Economic Unionists dissenting...
Totally different was the procedure of genial President Paul Loebe of the German Reichstag when one Adolf Stein, Nationalist newsgatherer, signed a story in which he graphically described how Frau Loebe allegedly eats peas, beans, spinach and other vegetables with her knife. When President Loebe learned that in retaliation for this article a subordinate Reichstag official had deprived Correspondent Stein of his card of entrance to the Reichstag, he at once interceded and caused the card to be reissued. Said Herr President Loebe, after thus turning his wife's other cheek: "Newspaper men must not be punished merely...