Word: reichstager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report: General Erich von Ludendorff, sporting the Iron Cross upon his bosom, dressed in a blue serge suit, badly in need of pressing, "stalked" into the corridors of the Reichstag. Party wrangling ceased. Reichstagers were awed by his lordly presence...
Georges Weil, once a member for Alsace in the German Reichstag, was elected a Deputy for Alsace in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris...
...final strength of parties will not be known until after the new Reichstag (elected a fortnight ago) meets on May 22. The Socialists, according to late information, obtained 100 seats, and the Nationalists 96. The latter, however, claim nine votes of the Landbund Party, which would give them 105 seats and make them the largest party in the Reichstag. This question is to be settled by vote of the Reichstagers...
When completed, the new Reichstag will have about 475-485 members.* Of these, Centrists, German People's Party and the variously-opinioned Nationalists number about 300. All these actually favor a return to monarchial government, but most of them support the Republic. The new Reichstag is, therefore, predominantly Monarchist in sentiment, but committed to upholding the Republican régime...
Significance. Because of numerous interpellations of the coalition Government's fiscal policy, put forward under the Special Full Power Emer- gency Act of last October, Chancellor Marx called upon President Ebert to dissolve the Reichstag (TIME, March 24). Since that time, however, the Dawes report entered very actively into German politics and became coalesced with the financial reforms championed by the Government. The return of this Government to power signifies the acceptance of the Dawes plan by a majority of the German nation; but the plan cannot be passed without the Monarchists' support, for its railway clauses require...