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Prince Max went on to say that the co-operation of
the Reichstag with the Government must continue after the war. A Bill would be introduced to authorize Deputies entering the Ministry to retain their seats. Prussia must, he said, adopt the democratic suffrage promised by the Emperor, but hitherto rejected by the Landtag. He announced as a remarkable concession to the new spirit that the Chancellor, by order of the Emperor, would be allowed to overrule Generals who went too far in exercising a political censorship and suppressing political meetings—a declaration which shows uncon- sciously how little power even the highest civilian authorities possess in this militarist State.
