Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drum fire sounded in the Reichstag as debate upon the policies and approval of the new Luther Cabinet opened. Political howitzers fired large, explosive insults, while the smaller guns kept up a din of hissing. Now and again a single rifleman let fly with a derisive snarl. Rarely has a more turbulent session been seen in the historic debating chamber, which was literally filled with growls, gnarls, mutterings and other verbal abuses...
...present alignment of the Reichstag consists of two general divisions. On the one side are those who upholding the present economic order, both monarchists and republicans, and on the other those who stand for socialism in one form or another. It is true that the monarchy issue was one of the more important campaign slogans, but I understand that in other countries, too, incidental issues are dragged to the front in order to screen the real issues...
Cabinet from the ranks of the present Reichstag is immaterial; the so-called crisis is bound to continue, for it will be dependent for its existence on the Right and then on the Left as occasion demands...
...position is that the Reichstag contains 493 members, 247 of whom would form a bare majority. The Right Block commands only 216 votes; the Left Block, including the Centre Party, but excluding the Communists, has only 232 votes. A majority Cabinet is therefore impossible unless the Centre Party (69 members) joins the Right, or the German People's Party (51 members) joins the Left; but this neither Party will...
Another Proposal. A more practical suggestion was contained in the proposal that Dr. Gessler, Democrat and present Minister of Defense, should head a Cabinet composed of members of all the Reichstag parties...