Word: zetkin
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...rule of this house," quavered Clara Zetkin, "that its oldest member shall preside at the opening of a new session. I was born July 5, 1857. Is there anyone older...
...Amazons half carried Grandmother Zetkin up the stairs of the Reichstag's Tribune. Communist Deputies cheered her. Others sat in stony silence, some Fascists pretending to read newspapers. Only Dr. Hugenberg's Royalist Deputies, who call themselves Nationalists, stayed away from the curious, historic show...
Grandmother Zetkin mopped her brow, wiped her slightly drooling lips (a gesture she frequently repeated) and took big gulps of water. She seemed barely able to lift and ring the Speaker's bell...
...Then I call this session to order!" cried Grandmother Zetkin, and summoning all her strength, she began a speech that was to last 45 minutes. At times her voice almost died away. Several times the Amazons begged Grandmother to spare herself, but she quelled them with a muttered "Nein! Nein! I will speak on!" It was, as Clara Zetkin well knew, her last grand chance to tongue-lash her ancient enemy Paul von Hindenburg, 84 and unrejuvenated...
...Impeach Hindenburg!" Probably in 1914-15 der feldmarschall had no time to notice that he, his Kaiser and the General Staff were being attacked every day by one Clara Zetkin, editor of a Socialist sheet (she did not join the Communist Party until 1919) which demanded "Proletarian Peace."* Without troubling der feldmarschall, policemen arrested Frau Zetkin in 1915 and kept her under indictment, though she was 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...