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...Young Plan passed the French Chamber of Deputies last week. It had previously passed the Reichstag, after which political forces were loosed which caused the German cabinet to fall. And in San Francisco last week Mr. Owen D. Young made the speech of his life, ostensibly to celebrants of the University of California's 62nd birthday, actually to the people he represented at Paris when the Young Plan was made, the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Too Rich To Be Loved | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Most German cabinets since the Reich became a Republic have been "minority governments," squeaking along with unstable majorities in the Reichstag, seldom strong enough to be resolute except while the country was facing some long-drawn-out crisis in which party differences could be sunk and enemies could unite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg + Iron Cross + Stresemann | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...such a crisis the cabinet of that ineffectual Socialist, Pudgy Herman Müller lived for 21 months until last week. The saving crisis was the Young Plan of reparations. When it passed the Reichstag, when the crisis was over (TIME, March 24), the cabinet became a house of cards. "Poof!" went all the cabinet ministers last week. "Poof!" they voluntarily resigned. "Poof!" they gave the excuse of not being able to agree on the budget bill. "Poof!" fell the house of cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg + Iron Cross + Stresemann | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...funeral frock coats and stiff choker collars, Reichstag deputies joined President Paul von Hinderburg last week in a memorial service for Germany's War dead. Of the 2,000,000 Germans who were killed during the War, only 200,000 or 10% lie buried in German soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Memorial | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...vote of 265 to 150, the Reichstag last week completely revised the Defense of the Republic Act, struck out the clause forbidding Wilhelm II to enter Germany. Sulky and prudent, the whilom War lord made no move to return to Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Defense Act | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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