Word: reichstager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germany. The Monarchists in the Reichstag followed a policy of obstruction to the passage of the legislation necessary to the operation of the Experts' Plan and involving its official approval by Germany. Except for the extreme members of the party, it was clear that many Monarchy men were only holding out for better terms, such as a definite determination of Germany's capacity to pay the total of reparations, earlier evacuation of the Ruhr, etc. Also, it seemed not unlikely that much of their opposition was due to the promptings of the powerful industrialists...
After several days of tangled and futile discussions, the Reichstag met to take a final vote. The galleries of the chamber were crowded to their maximum capacity with diplomats, distinguished visitors and breathless journalists. On the floor of the chamber, 441 Reichstag members assembled. A two-thirds majority, or 294 votes, was needed to enact certain parts of the Experts' Plan legislation?the mortgaging of the Reich railways to the Allies, for example. Failure to obtain the required majority would have meant dissolution of the Reichstag and a general election...
Germany. The Reichsrat (a council composed of the members of the Federal Governments) approved all the Experts' Plan legislation before it was introduced into the Reichstag (Federal Parliament...
...climax of Berlin's tremendous open-air tribute to her fallen soldiers was reached when an orderly, black-dense crowd assembled before the Reichstag, packed all the side streets around that building and filled the tree-lined avenues of the Tiergarten...
President Ebert, standing outside the Reichstag beneath an inscription, To the Living Spirit of Our Dead, said in a speech: "We swear today that we will do all in our power to help Germany resume her proper place among the nations. . . Let us swear to build in memory of our dead and our sacrifices a memorial more permanent than iron?a free Germany...