Word: nationalrat
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...black" coalitions, with the conservatives always the dominant partner. In 1966, the People's Party won an outright majority, then governed alone for four years. Last week the Socialists' turn finally came. Because of a shift of only seven seats in the 165-seat Nationalrat (Parliament), Austria is virtually certain to be ruled by its first Socialist Chancellor-and a Jewish one, at that...
...Because fortnight ago the Socialist Speaker and the two Vice Speakers of the Nationalrat (the only men empowered to convene it) resigned, apparently with the idea that in view of so much Fascist agitation it would be better that the parliament should not meet. Last week Second Vice Speaker President Sepp Straffner changed his mind, ordered the parliament to convene March...
...short, blue-eyed man, clad in the street garb of a priest, hurried last week into the great building which houses the Nationalrat (Parliament) in Vienna. As he passed through gloomy corridors only the sharp-eyed saw at this seeming-priest's throat the purple rabat of a monsignor. None the less all present bowed with respect to Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. He had just been created?for the second time;? Chancellor (Premier) of Austria. He is thus at present the sole Christian prelate to head a civil government...
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