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...could present in Leipzig this week. Dr. Paul Herz, onetime secretary to the Social Democratic Party in the Reichstag, claimed that the incendiaries could not have entered the Reichstag except through a tunnel leading from the official residence of the Reichstag President, Prussia's barrel-chested Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring. A onetime Police President of Berlin testified that 1,500 arresting warrants were ready for use immediately after the fire. Liberal Editor Georg Bernhard and Social Democrat Chairman Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid agreed that the Nazis were the only party that could have benefited from the Reichstag fire...
...President of the Federal Railways. Next year saw him Minister of Agriculture & Forestry in the Cabinet of Chancellor Otto Ender (now Minister-without-portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet) and he held the job through the Government of Chancellor Buresch. In May 1932 that fell, and kindly old President Wilhelm Miklas called on 39-year-old Engelbert Dollfuss to form a Government. He gave no answer, but went to his favorite church and spent the entire night in prayer. In the morning he went home, bathed, shaved, ate a steaming bowl of his favorite potato soup with whipped cream, and accepted...
Everyone in the world named William (or Guillaume, Guglielmo, Willem, Wilhelm, Guilielmus, Guillermo, Guilherme) was invited to an international Congress of Williams in October 1934 at St. Brieuc, France to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Guillaume Pinchon, Bishop of St. Brieuc who in 1225 saved thousands from famine by functioning as Brittany's food dictator...
...force? And if this coup takes place, however it may happen, will Europe let it occur without acting?" In Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss, like a chick trying to round up a brood of flustered hens, was trying desperately to get together a political consolidation to fight Naziism. President Wilhelm Miklas had shown him last week the Socialist petition signed by 1,250,000 Austrians, nearly one-third of the electorate, demanding the end of the Dollfuss dictatorship and a convocation of Parliament. To control Parliament or to ignore it. Chancellor Dollfuss last week had three choices. The first...
University of Southern California's President Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid returned from a visit to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doom, Holland, said that the ex-Kaiser urged all German-Americans to cooperate with President Roosevelt's recovery program...