Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queried one: "Why did not the Socialists announce this intention sooner, since they have always favored the Pacts? Did Chancellor Luther entice them by some means into his fold...
Hitherto the Luther-Stresemann Government has been able to count with certainty upon the support of only the Centrist Parties. After deliberating for two hours last week, the Socialist caucus announced positively that it would throw in its lot with the Government. On that basis Chancellor Luther was generally conceded to have secured more than enough votes to insure ratification of the Locarno Pacts by the Reichstag. When the Reichsrat* endorsed the treaties, last week, by a vote of 34 to 4, the prophecy was considered to have become a certainty...
...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 are signed, and that in the new Cabinet the Socialists will be well represented...
...existing under Hindenburg's leadership in Germany, does not match his personal inclination. If he could rule without the bonds imposed by his Constitutional oath, he might manage many things differently. But with him, sworn duty is something holy. Therefore it is self-evident that relying on his Chancellor and Ministers he should regard the Locarno policy as progress along the hard road leading to the recovery of Germany's freedom of action. It is easy to understand that this fact leaves the Nationalists helplessly confused. In the Presidential campaign they raised the authority of Hindenburg...
...Baldwin Government last week appointed Mr. McNeill (now a well known economist and a retired editor of the St. James Gazette) to the post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Since Winston Churchill is Chancellor of the Exchequer, it becomes the duty of "Wild Irish McNeill" to slip quietly in and out of the Churchillian sanctum bearing facts and figures...