Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Union of Railway Men, to which the strikers belong, declared the strike to be illegal, in a manifesto reported as follows: "The people responsible for calling the strike have made a colossal blunder in thinking than an irresponsible small section of the Union can dictate the policy of the Union. Our membership has been so schooled into discipline that for any small section of unauthorized people to attempt to undermine constitutional government by such methods can only have one result, and sooner or later the members who are being badly misled will have to realize it. For any small...
Meanwhile, Dr. Hergt issued a manifesto on behalf of the Nationalists, repudiating the Extreme Nationalists such as General Ludendorff and stating that his party, if in power, would not sign promises unless it could fulfill them. He wanted certain reservations made, the precise nature of which were not known; but he stated that his attitude by no means presupposed rejection. As utter chaos stares Germany in the face, if she reject the Dawes plan, its ultimate passage is certain. This was recognized by moderates of all Parties. The torrent of editorials in the American press to the effect that...
...make the Parliament understand that we need a leader, and the leader we need, in the estimation of L'Action Française, must be the hereditary leader, consequently the legitimate heir to the 40 Kings that made France." The Communists, in an election manifesto, urged a real Bolshevik dictator and the enaction of the following program: " Extinction of the public debt by confiscation of great fortunes; socialization of banks, mines, railroads, industries, insurance; requisition of dwellings for the proletariat; creation of a workmen's and peasants' militia; constitution of a high court of justice...
...Under the slogan, "One people, one nation, one Kaiser," the German National People's Party launched a strong monarchist drive for the Reichstag elections. A party manifesto demanded repudiation of the Versailles Treaty, urged the youth of the land to tear away "the tissue of lies about Germany's war guilt," to go back to Bismarck and "fight everywhere against the destructive spirit of the Jews...
...manifesto continues by urging "uncompromising war" against democratic principles of government, "which only serves to keep the proletariat in chains, while a Bolshevik dictatorship over the proletariat will set the people free...