Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political Paradox. Mgr. Seipel (Christian Socialist) succeeds as Chancellor, Dr. Rudolf Ramek, also a Christian Socialist. Not only is the new Chancellor of the same party as his predecessor, but they are both agreed on the fundamental policy of resistance to the incessant demands of Austria's organized state employes for higher...
...then, if Chancellor Ramek was forced to resign because he resisted the organized bureaucrats (TIME, Oct. 25), was he replaced by Chancellor Seipel who will resist still more vigorously...
...controls sufficient votes to control the Chancellory, but is divided within itself on the question of "states rights" for the Austrian provinces v. pan-Austrian "centralism." Dr. Ramek, leader of the former group, waxed potent two years ago, and usurped the Chancellory (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) from Mgr. Seipel, Chancellor then as now, when the latter was under fire (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) for not raising the salaries of Austria's state-employed railway workers...
Since then the Christian Socialist pendulum has swung back to Mgr. Seipel, and last week brought him again into power on the upsurge of a great personal triumph. The new Cabinet is identical with the resigned cabinet of former Chancellor Ramek with four exceptions...
...Actually the "conservative" party of republican Austria. From this misnomer arises the paradox presented by Chancellor Seipel when, though a Socialist, he dons ecclesiastical robes and celebrates mass as the politico-religious hero of Austrian Catholics...