Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officially certify the credentials of the plenipotentiaries: M. Briand, Premier and Foreign Minister of France; Signor Scialoja, head of the Italian delegation to the League of Nations; MM. Vandervelde, Benes and Skrzynski, respectively Foreign Ministers of Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland; Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann of the German Reich...
Only the delegates of the Reich spoke in German. The characteristics of the speakers were described† as follows...
General rejoicing broke out on all hands, and a new era in the peace of Europe was widely heralded. The German diehards, however, at once set on foot a scheme to have the ratification so laboriously achieved declared invalid by the Supreme Court of the Reich. Their contentions are: 1) The Constitution of the Reich provides that the Reichstag shall determine whether or not Germany shall go to war, and can be changed only by an amendment requiring a two-thirds majority of the Reichstag; 2) The measure passed last week would make the League and not the Reichstag...
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...
...Reichsrat is a council of representatives from the component states of the Reich. All bills, before they are presented to the Reichstag, require its endorsement. The significant fact is thus not the endorsement but the majorlty by which it passed...