Word: reichwehr
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...several days all the governments of the world hesitated over the Herriot plan last week, keeping officially mum. Unofficially the German Government pointed out through its press spokesman that M. Herriot in proposing to turn the Reichwehr into a conscript army was proposing to break the Treaty of Versailles which forced upon Germany a volunteer army. Any breach in the Treaty, especially by a Frenchman, was so much to the good, the German spokesman declared, but of course the Fatherland would insist on "arms equality" (which M. Herriot had denounced as "re-armament...
...Marx, although an old politician, is not reputed to be a strong man, and, if the Cabinet lasts, the power in Germany will remain precisely where it was during the last Government, i. e., in the hands of Stresemann, Jarres and General von Seeckt, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichwehr. It follows as an unavoidable corollary that the policy of the present Government will not be changed one jot or tittle...
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