Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...months ago, the Barmat Brothers failed; the Government lost about $15,000,000 and the Prussian State Bank several more millions. The Reichstag and the Prussian Diet formed each a commission to inquire into the affairs of the Barmat Brothers...
...fact that ex-Chancellor Bauer had accepted money from the Barmats. The Socialist Party forced Bauer to resign from the Reichstag?but nothing it could do could temper the cracking shrapnel that spat its hate on every side. Dr. Anton Hofle, ex-Minister of Ports, resigned temporarily from the Reichstag and his trial was rumored; for, although he was not accused of profiting financially, it remained a fact that the Barmat transactions were approved by him. Other revelations implicating Socialists were threatened...