Chapter 49 - Insults

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"Order! Order!" The speaker shouted as the members of the Reichstag hushed their aggressive debating. "Reich Chancellor, you may continue."

"Thank you Mr Speaker." Felix said after he stood from his seat on a platform just below the Speakers platform.

"I agree with the honourable members from the Reich Isolationist Party, the Guile of the ambassadors from Visea in requesting the sale of German arms, is outrageous! We cannot betray the German people by sending arms to the country that humiliated...

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"I agree with the honourable members from the Reich Isolationist Party, the Guile of the ambassadors from Visea in requesting the sale of German arms, is outrageous! We cannot betray the German people by sending arms to the country that humiliated our Kaiser! Therefore I propose to the Reichstag that we close borders and cease trade with Visea. We must also expel the Visean embassy from Berlin, and remove the rot festering in our imperial capital!" A number of cheers errupted in the chamber as the leader of the German People's party seconded the motion. A vote then followed, 574 votes in favour, 76 in opposition: most coming from the German Reich Syndicalist party who had 48 Ministers in the Reichstag, no representation in the Bundesrat (House of Lords) or the Lander making them the smallest party in the Reichstag.

"That concludes today's session." The speaker announced upon the conclusion of the vote. Felix walked out of the Valkshalle and crossed the road to the Wilhelmstrasser. Upon entering the anti-chamber to Wilhelm's new office his secretary, and General Secretary of the Civil Service, called out to him. Ida stated that the Kaiser was away in Visea currently. Felix laughed nervously as he feared that if the Kaiser approved of his time in Visea that would be politically awkward for the Reich Chancellor, while there was universal respect for the Kaiser, represented by the German Monarchist Party who always had a fixed number of one hundred seats in the Reichstag. Ida insisted that the Kaiser and his fiance were not eager to be in Visea and asked if she could send a telegram to the German Embassy in Marranade. Felix agreed and Ida went down the corridor to the communications room and had a Pernament Secretary in his brown uniform man the Enigma machine: a fantastic German invention which was vertually uncrackable to potential eardroppers.

[Armband of the German Monarchist Party]

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