Word: coalitioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Significance. Observers noted that the present alignment of Centre parties behind Dr. Luther can command only 171 votes in the Reichstag out of a total of 493. Dr. Luther thus heads a "Little Coalition," with barely enough votes to outnumber the Left (Socialists, 131; Communists, 45) or the Right...
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...
The rival proposal was that of le Cartel des Gauches, the coalition of the left, headed by M. Herriot. It featured the tightening up of existing tax machineryThe "Socialist wing of the Cartel held a party caucus, and the delegates who attended voted, 1,766 to 1,331, against the...
Premier King's Liberals are actually slightly outnumbered by the cohorts of famed Conservative Leader Arthur Meighen, and the Premier himself, having been defeated in the electoral contest for his own seat, may not take his customary place on the floor of the House. Thus it would appear superficially that...
A stifling censorship has made impartial news despatches from Bulgaria rare to the point of nonexistence. Last week the cables reported that Premier Tsankov and his absolutist Cabinet had been forced to resign when the gradually crumbling Government coalition in the Sobranye (Parliament) failed to obtain a majority. It was...