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...Western Allied High Commissioners initialed the "protocol of agreements" which put into force the decisions of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference (TIME, Nov. 28). Next day, Adenauer submitted the protocol to the Bundestag (Lower House). The new German Parliament forthwith proved one thing: it was no rubberstamp Reichstag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Germany took its first steps in parliamentary government since Adolf Hitler reduced the old Reichstag to the status of a servile operatic chorus. The voice of the new Federal Republic's Bundestag last week was vigorous, sometimes shrill; in their new-found freedom of debate, the Germans missed few tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Freedom Rings | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...elected as chamber president Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. When the lower house, the Bundestag, with 402 deputies elected by the people, convened in the afternoon, the drama of free-speech government began. Little Paul Löbe, who had been president of the Reichstag until Göring took over in 1932, was temporary president because, nearing 74, he was the oldest delegate in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Trying Over | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...moving speech he warned the delegates against totalitarian power grabs. He recalled the March 1933 meeting of the Reichstag, which voted the infamous enabling act handing Hitler his dictatorial powers. At this, an interrupting cry came from the extreme left, behind the kettledrums. It was Max Reimann, Communist Parteiführer of Western Germany and one of the 15 representatives of his party in the Bundestag: "How many delegates here voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Trying Over | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Soft Music. The hero of the Reichstag trial was ailing and growing old. On public occasions he rouged his cheeks to appear younger. Last April, he left his job as Premier of Bulgaria, went to Russia to "rest." There were the usual rumors of liquidation, but he seemed to be really ill. Last week, Moscow announced that he had died of diabetes in a sanitarium near the Russian capital. The body lay in state in Moscow; the Russian radio added that music played softly while "thousands & thousands of the working people" filed past Dimitrov's casket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Hero | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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