Foreign News Notes, Oct. 22, 1923

A motor lorry loaded with Green Police, followed by a limousine, made its way through Berlin to the Reichstag. Inside the limousine was a nervous, agitated man. One hour later Green Police and limousine made the return journey. Inside the car sat a man " wreathed in smiles": Chancellor Stresemann had been made Germany's first constitutional dictator by 316 votes to 24. Thus he joins the ranks of European dictators—Mussolini of Italy, Doktor von Kahr of Bavaria, Captain-General Primo Rivera of Spain, Colonel Gonatas of Greece, Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey.

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