Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the week colorful personalities abounded in the Reichstag as concluding arguments for and against the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. Klara Zetkin, 68-year-old and rejuvenated* "Mother of German Communism," arrived from Moscow for the occasion. On the Nationalist bench the aged Admiral von Tirpitz stroked his pendulous forked beard...
...peace of Europe was widely heralded. The German diehards, however, at once set on foot a scheme to have the ratification so laboriously achieved declared invalid by the Supreme Court of the Reich. Their contentions are: 1) The Constitution of the Reich provides that the Reichstag shall determine whether or not Germany shall go to war, and can be changed only by an amendment requiring a two-thirds majority of the Reichstag; 2) The measure passed last week would make the League and not the Reichstag the chief factor in deciding whether Germany should go to war, and this measure...
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...