Word: reichstags
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...spoke blunt Gottfried R. Treviranus, Minister Without Portfolio in the cabinet of Chancellor Bruning, to cheering crowds assembled last week before the steps of the Reichstag. Six hours later the protests started, piled up in wave upon wave of outraged French and Polish anguish to a holocaust of denunciation...
...With the Reichstag disbanded and Germany under the "veiled dictatorship" of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning (TIME, July 28, Aug. 4), with every German politician touring his bailiwick in preparation for the general election Sept. 14, a new political party was organized in Germany last week...
...When Reichstag deputies would not vote the money Bismarck wanted, he got it by writing out a decree which his King (whom he made Kaiser Wilhelm I) hastened to sign. Fortnight ago the new iron chancellor, who won the "Iron Cross" during the War and was hand-picked for his mettle by old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME, April 7). dissolved the Reichstag by presidential decree when it would not vote the money he wanted. Last week came the final Bismarckian move. Herr Brüning placed his rejected Budget Bill before Old Paul in the form of a decree...
...tempestuous Reichstag there were shouts of "Down with Hindenburg!" last week (see col. 2), but no such blatant outburst marred the triumphant passage of Old Paul through the newly liberated Rhineland (TIME, July 14 et seq.). In city after city massed thousands greeted the venerable president first with a reverent hush, then with a tornado of delirious "hochs...
Prospects are bad. Everyone admitted in Berlin last week that the current German unemployment and depression will mean big electoral gains for the "extremist parties," Communists & Fascists. Most unfortunate of all the prestige of Old Paul has suffered. Month ago it would have seemed incredible that the Reichstag should ring with cries of "Down with Hindenburg!" Perhaps, however, the deputies were chiefly irate because, being now no longer deputies, they have lost such pleasant hot weather privileges as unlimited, free, first-class rides on the German State Railways...