Word: reichstag
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...Government in a vigorous attempt to force it to explain why some hundreds of millions of gold marks had been payed to the Ruhr industrialists during the time of passive resistance to the French occupation, and why this money was paid over to them without the sanction of the Reichstag...
...fiercely that the Socialists knew that the amounts were being paid in 1923 and accused them of seeking to cloud over the Barmat scandal (see under) in which they are hopelessly implicated. Moreover, it was declared that the Government was entitled to make these payments without reference to the Reichstag by virtue of special emergency legislation...
...continually postponed. It was supposed that defense would be offered on the basis that the Government had to indemnify the industrialists for their losses in order to prevent the secession of the Ruhr and Rhineland from Germany. Eventually the Government will ask the Reichstag to give its expost facto agreement to the disbursed credits...
Drum fire sounded in the Reichstag as debate upon the policies and approval of the new Luther Cabinet opened. Political howitzers fired large, explosive insults, while the smaller guns kept up a din of hissing. Now and again a single rifleman let fly with a derisive snarl. Rarely has a more turbulent session been seen in the historic debating chamber, which was literally filled with growls, gnarls, mutterings and other verbal abuses...
...present alignment of the Reichstag consists of two general divisions. On the one side are those who upholding the present economic order, both monarchists and republicans, and on the other those who stand for socialism in one form or another. It is true that the monarchy issue was one of the more important campaign slogans, but I understand that in other countries, too, incidental issues are dragged to the front in order to screen the real issues...