Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hans Luther ("Nonpartisan" ) Chancellor
...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 (German National People's Party, 103). In addition, some 43 votes appertaining to the numerous minor parties, and mostly leaning toward the Right, further serve to divide the Reichstag roughly into three loose factions of almost eq,ual power: "the Lefts," "Luther's Little Centre Coalition," and "the Rights...
That such an apparently hopeless three-cornered deadlock is considered "tolerably workable," arises from the fact that the Socialists have long followed the policy of "benevolent abstention from voting" which last December allowed the Luther-Stresemann minority Government to carry through the Locarno negotiations despite the opposition of 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 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...
Koch. Much interest centered upon a last minute fight, early in the week, between the German Democratic Party, which had got its leader, Herr Erich Koch, into Dr. Luther's "tentative Cabinet" (TIME, Jan. 25), and the Bavarian People's Party, which was intent on getting him out again. The Bavarians denounced Herr Koch as an "arch-unionist" who would take away the "sectional rights" appertaining to the various states of the German Republic. Eventually they forced him to allow another member of his party, Herr Kuelz, to receive the Interior portfolio, which Herr Koch had formerly demanded...