Word: reichswehr
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...That the German Army or Reichswehr, now consisting of 100,000 picked volunteers who must enlist for not less than twelve years, be disbanded and replaced by a conscript army similar to that of France...
...That an international authority be constituted with the right to investigate the armaments of every nation. (To Germans this looked like a proposal to revive the disbanded and detested Inter-Allied Commission of Military Control which used to snoop around their Reichswehr...
BOOM! BANG!-the field guns let go, for President von Hindenburg had kindly ordered a company of the Republican Reichswehr to officiate at Coburg Castle on the hill. There, after the marriage, 140 noble guests sat down to banquet...
...finally released. Last week she tongue-lashed thus: "Without consult ing the Reichstag, political power in Ger many has for the moment been grasped by a Presidential Cabinet which is the servant of trust and monopoly capital and of the agrarians and whose motive force is represented by Reichswehr Generals...
...object to the Reichswehr being thrown into the struggle of internal politics. That I reject any sort of political dictatorship I made clear in my recent radio talk. . . . Can the outside world expect the German people to be content with existing conditions? On the contrary there is reason for wondering that the German people bear their terrible distress so calmly and with such discipline. ... A country treated for 13 years as a pariah by the outside world simply had to forfeit the respect of its own people...