Word: reichstags
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...scheme, as revealed, was designed to operate, if possible, without bloodshed, along semi-constitutional lines. The Cabinet was first to be unhorsed in the Reichstag and President von Hindenburg pressed to call in as Chancellor the arch-Monarchist Dr. Neumann, who was then to form a Cabinet from such notorious Fascists as Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "the German Northcliffe," subsidizer of numerous Monarchist papers, and General von Moehl, one of the most ruthless of soldiers...
...tiny black, red and gold field in the staff corner) should also be flown by German diplomatic and consular offices. This flag was denounced as "nine-tenths Imperial and only one-tenth Republican" by the Left parties; and last week Chancellor Luther was savagely interpellated about it in the Reichstag...
Herr Luther chances to possess more ability than wit. His enemies succeeded in making it appear that the Cabinet had taken a momentous decision detrimental to the Reich without consulting the Reichstag. Flustered, Herr Luther attempted to evade collision by announcing that he would postpone the execution of the flag order until August. Then, witless, he offered the ridiculous explanation that several months' time would be needed to communicate the order to German consulates in different parts of the world...
...ridicule and laughter burst. Herr Luther's delighted enemies roared. Soon the Reichstag passed 176* to 146† (with 103 abstentions) a motion introduced by the Democrats censuring Herr Luther personally and incidentally puffing President von Hindenburg...
...Reichstag proceedings upon this point last week were, however, of such a routine nature that only Deputy Scheidemann (Socialist) spoke. He accused Wilhelm of Doorn of high treason, charging that he betrayed secrets of importance to the late Tsar Nicholas. During Herr Scheidemann's tirade, many Deputies of the Right quietly left the hall-heeded not when he went on to accuse Wilhelm's sympathizers of "deception, corruption, and doglike servility...