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...After 17 years in exile, and 14 years as lecturer and professor of government at Harvard, Heinrich Bruning, 65, ex-Chancellor (1930-32) of the German (Weimar) Republic, announced that he was going home. He will finish out his career, not in politics ("You know, it would be a terribly difficult task to be a German minister nowaday"), but as professor of history at the University of Cologne...
...first of the anonymous letters was received in Berlin by a Weimar Republic judge who had just pronounced sentence in an embezzlement case. "You are an ass," the letter read. "You have condemned an innocent man. The guilty party is the director of the bank." The director was investigated and found guilty...
Heinrich Bruning, Littauer Professor of Government, and one-time chancellor of Germany's Weimar Republic, has accepted a teaching position at the University of Cologne, the "Muncher Sud Deutscher Zeitung" reported recently...
Bruning headed the Weimar government for several months in the years immediately preceding Hitler. He has been teaching here since before...
Last week the harried, ailing Premier told the Deputies he was willing to accept a single-ballot vote, a runoff election system or even a combination of proportional representation and a majority vote. He warned that proportional representation had bred the self-destructive coalitions of Germany's Weimar Republic. "This lack of power," he rapped, "provoked a crystallization of opinion into two irreducible blocs . . . leaving no result of the whole experiment except that one party was in the government and all the others were in prison . . . We don't want to see that happen here...