Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right wing of the German government has never trusted the Parliamentary system very much and has hoped to cut down on the powers of Parliament and to increase the powers of the President and the state officials. It is natural that times of emergency should make louder and more general the call for a dictator. The acuteness of the prolonged economic crisis has made even many a Chamber of Commerce and farmer organization call for a wirtschaftdietatur. It is in the agricultural and business fields that the need for a dictator is most pressing...
...recently penned by a gentleman whom I believe you have styled "famed Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert." His opinion is probably at least as good as yours. Here it is: "Prince Otto von Bismarck at 28 years of age is the leader of the Nationalist Party in the German Parliament, or Reichstag, one of the leading parties in point of numbers in Germany. . . . What strikes an American is the singular maturity of the young leader of the Nationalists. At 28 he would be two years short of eligibility for the United States Senate, but he has a riper knowledge...
...lined the streets of Budapest. They scooted about on bicycles. Whenever Admiral Horthy, Regent* of the Kingdom of Hungaria, rode forth, the policemen cleared the entire street down which he was to ride. At length they held back an enormous crowd gathered to witness the opening of the Hungarian Parliament. Excitement ran high, for it was known that Premier Count Bethlen would present to the Deputies the Government's position with respect to the "national scandal," the recently discovered plot to flood France with counterfeited -in- Hungary 1,000-franc notes (TIME, Jan. 18). Premier Bethlen slipped into...
...autonomous state by the Treaty of Versailles; and not until then did "Marshal" Josef Pilsudski attain recognition by the Powers as the first President of Poland. M. Stanislaw Wojciechowski was elected to succeed him in 1922, and continues as Prezydent of the Rzeczpospolita Polska. The Sejm Ustawodawcry (Parliament) has actually existed since 1918, when it was created by the earlier "Regency Council" and "Provisional Council of State" which sprang up in response to the necessity for some sort of government during the War. The Slavonic Poles naturally continue "Catholic" (Russian Orthodox, Greek, Roman, Armenian, etc.). The present Republic has been...
Last week the throne of Great Britain fell. Fell likewise the English Constitution, history's most potent myth. The Houses of Parliament followed the example of those in Ottawa--they went up in flames. Mobs bearing the Red flag and singing the "International" possessed themselves of Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square. Hotels and public buildings were sacked. The aristocracy was obliterated, the proletariat emancipated. Cockney Lenins were supreme. The greatest cataclysm since the Black Plaguo, had wrecked the greatest empire since Caosar Augustus...