Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though Chancellor von Papen is a Privy Chamberlain to His Holiness Pope Pius XI, though he comes of a family rich for generations, and though he owns Germania, newsorgan of the Catholic Centre Party, he was promptly expelled from the latter's ranks on assuming the Chancellorship. Other Catholic Centrists sympathized with Catholic Centrist Dr. Brüning. When Chancellor von Papen attempted to call on Dr. Brüning he was not admitted, was curtly told that the former Chancellor was "in bed suffering from nervous heart attack...
...vain the new Chancellor addressed an open letter to a high German Catholic prelate, attempted to explain that he had "accepted the President's call not as a party man but as a German." Sternly an official Catholic Centrist manifesto denounced "the frivolous intrigues of constitutionally irresponsible individuals." At Cologne the Party's newsorgan called the new Cabinet "a bad joke," added: "Of all the surprises which domestic politics have recently produced this is the greatest and most painful...
Together President Lebrun and Premier Tardieu then motored to Paris where M. Tardieu presented his Cabinet's resignation. Since the new Chamber will have a Left Centre majority, President Lebrun seemed bound to call on Edouard Herriot, most potent Left Centrist (see p. 20), to form a Cabinet soon, but meanwhile the President asked Right Centrist Andre Tardieu to carry on pending the assembling of the new Chamber in June...
Nevertheless bald and owlish Dr. Otto Braun, the Socialist Leader who has ruled as Premier of Prussia for eleven years at the head of a rock-firm Socialist-Centrist coalition, was still last week in power. It was estimated that Dr. Braun will be able to muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster...
...Centrist Leader Dr. Wilhelm Marx has been Chancellor four times for a total of three years...