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...Significance. Observers noted with interest that Mr. de Valera was defeated while opposing the extreme die-hards of his party. He was advocating that "when the Oath of Fealty to the King [required of all Irish M. P.'s] shall be abolished, then Sinn Feiners should cease to abstain from the Dail [Parliament], enter it and work toward the establishment of a Republic...
When the Locarno Pacts actually came up before the Reichstag, the Socialists momentarily ceased to abstain and helped Chancellor Luther to railroad the Pacts through. Their "price" for this aid was announced to have been Chancellor Luther's scrupulously fulfilled promise to resign, so that someone else might form a "Big Coalition" in which the Socialists would take part. Since no German statesman has been able to do this during the past six weeks, Dr. Luther is apparently to carry on and make the best of everybody...
Eventually the stomaching was accomplished. The De Valerists, threatened by President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State with the dissolution of the Dáil if they attempted strong-arm politics, continued to "abstain" and the measure eventually passed...
Replied another: "Up to last week the Socialists have threatened to abstain from voting on the Pacts in the Reichstag, with the intention of calling the anti-Pact Nationalists' bluff that they would abstain from voting. The purpose of each group has been to make the other seem responsible for whatever the Reichstag does. Now the Socialists have taken the plunge. They intend to assume the responsibility and reap the rewards of making possible a coalition capable of ratifying the Pacts. Chancellor Luther has allegedly promised them that the present Cabinet will resign if and when the Pacts...
...Angell's deans, secretaries and proctors seem to have joined the new fanatics, telling us to abstain from thought and wine...