Word: luthers
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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...
...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...
Amid such speculatory prognostications Chancellor Luther prepared two bills for immediate submission to the Reichstag. One would authorize the Reich Government to sign the Pacts at London on Dec. 1, 1925. The other would sanction the entrance of Germany into the League of Nations, as is specifically provided in the Pacts before they can become operative (TIME, Oct. 26, INTERNATIONAL...
Later, eight of the Baron's war comrades bore the coffin to the famed Invaliden Cemetery, while German aces who had fought with him during the War soared above the funeral procession and dropped flowers and wreaths.* President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther and War Minister Gessler solemnly accompanied the aging mother of Baron von Richthofen to his new grave. And there were present scores of generals from all parts of Germany, as well as a company of the Baron's Uhlan regiment, which fired a last salute over his grave...