Word: reichstag
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Significance. The acceptance of the Experts' Plan last summer involved amendments to the Constitution, which in turn involved the securing of a two-thirds majority. A two-thirds majority of the Reichstag was 314; the Government could command, with the Socialists, about 260. It was clear that the Monarchists had to be won over. On the promise by the Government to give them four seats (later cut to three) in the Cab- inet, about two-thirds of the Monarchists voted for the Government and the Experts' Plan legislation was enacted...
...opinion voiced in London is more current in Europe than Americans realize. Hans von Raumer, leader of the People's Party in the German Reichstag, has just sounded a warning to Europe of the American menace. Italy remembers with bitterness how steady was American opposition to her claims to Trieste and Flume. French newspapers have hardly finished congratulating themselves upon the election of Coolidge as staving off for four years more America's desire to meddle in European affairs...
...notorious Junker, Count Westarp, denied, with much heat, that he had offered ex-Crown Prince Friederich Wilhelm a Nationalist nomination for the Reichstag...
...Rupprecht) because it is Catholic. "Ludy" is a fire-eating Protestant and pins his faith to the House of Hohenzollern. Nevertheless, he has had a remarkable following in Bavaria which he appears now to have lost. This seems likely to affect his chances of being re-elected to the Reichstag...
...many seats. The Social Democrats, however, were considered to have a fair chance of increasing their representation, because most of the Communist seats are expected to be captured by them. Centrists and People's Party, it was said, would probably hold their seats. Summed up, it appears that the Reichstag situation is not likely to be materially altered ? that is, neither the Socialist, Government nor Monarchist blocs will be able to command a majority...