Word: reichstagers
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Under that system the Republic has been ruled for just over two years not primarily by the Reichstag but by Presidential decrees drafted and administered by Herr von Hindenburg's hand-picked protégé, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. He, a pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working bachelor soon won greater world esteem than any German diplomat since the late, great Dr. Stresemann. Throughout Germany last week the President's abrupt act in kicking his protege back into obscurity produced an impression never before associated with the name of HINDENBURG?symbol of Loyalty and Duty...
...Cabinet constructed last week there is no minister, excepting Dr. Warmbold, who has ever held a Cabinet portfolio before; no representative of German labor or the trade unions; no member of either the Socialist Party or the Fascist Party, respectively largest and next-largest in the Reichstag. To cap the climax President von Hindenburg appointed as Germany's new Chancellor notorious Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. English editors promptly splashed out the screamer EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR...
Parliamentary experts told the Chancellor that if he dared to face the Reichstag his Cabinet would be overwhelmingly defeated. Therefore Protege von Papen asked Patron von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag, which he obligingly did. Within 60 days a new Reichstag must be elected?but in less than ten days Germany must send a delegation to the Lausanne Conference, which all the world hopes will untangle Reparations, War Debts and German private debts...
...which the patriotic generals could not stomach and which eventually turned the President against Dr. Brüning. Proclaiming: "Our hour has come!" the Fascists announced they would support no Cabinet in which they did not have a majority. Without the Hitlerites no Cabinet seemed possible unless a new Reichstag was elected. Seemingly these developments foreshadowed a new Government dominated by the Fascist Party, or a dictatorship by military leaders...
Just as dawn broke the resolution passed, was sent to the Württemberg State Diet with an urgent request that it be brought at once before the Reichstag in Berlin. The International Labor Office figures the income of the average Berlin wage earner at 3,364 marks...