Word: reichstags
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...their first meeting last August, upstart Herr Hitler was not so much as invited to sit down, despite the fact that he represented 230 Reichstag Deputies, by far the largest party in the Fatherland...
...November things were different. On the one hand losses in Germany's general election shrank the Hitler Party, still largest, from 230 to 195 Reichstag seats. On the other hand, popular hatred and unrest at the reactionary policies of the "Cabinet of Monocles" forced Chancellor von Papen to resign (TIME, Nov. 28). When Der Osaf* was summoned a second time to the Presidential Palace he was bidden to sit down by Der Reichspräsident for what Germans call a "conference of four eyes"-i. e. not even a secretary was present. Called in for a moment, State Secretary...
Only President von Hindenburg could oust General von Schleicher as Chancellor and to do so he had only to refuse to sign a decree giving von Schleicher power to dissolve the Reichstag. Such power the President had given to all his Chancellors since enough Hitler Deputies began to be elected to make it impossible for a Cabinet opposed by Der Osaf to get a vote of confidence. Last week General von Schleicher, knowing that the Reichstag was about to meet this week, called on President von Hindenburg to ask for what had become "the usual powers of dissolution...
...German Reichstag was not in session last week but its Fascist Speaker, paunchy Captain Hermann Goring, had the Imperial flag hoisted above his official residence. Monarchism was in the air. Seemingly Adolf Hitler's Fascist Party, which had flirted with Marxism, is again coquetting ardently with the Hohenzollerns...
Trying his best to look, act and talk like a civilian, Germany's new Chancellor, General Kurt von Schleicher, has put away his bemedaled uniform, hung up his service cap. Fortnight ago he cajoled the hostile Reichstag into dissolution over the holidays (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week he made the program speech of his new Cabinet?which should have been made to the Reichstag?directly to the Damen und Herren of the Fatherland's radio audience. German tuners-in. accustomed to the rasping, imperious radio delivery of former Chancellor Colonel Franz von Papen, were pleasantly surprised as muftified General...