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...When the Reichstag opened late last week, a day of merely perfunctory debate was followed by important party caucuses anent the Locarno Treaties...
...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...
Replied another: "Up to last week the Socialists have threatened to abstain from voting on the Pacts in the Reichstag, with the intention of calling the anti-Pact Nationalists' bluff that they would 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...
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...