Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, exhausted, decided to let the crisis wear itself out. Chancellor Marx and his Government are to stay in office until Jan. 5, when the Reichstag convenes...
...Proposal. Interest in the ultimate solution of the Cabinet puzzle was not lacking in Reichstag circles. Among the many proposals was the suggestion that ex-Chancellor Hermann Muller, leader of the Social Democratic Party, should form a Cabinet composed of Social Demo- crats, Centrists and members of the German People's Party. This plan, however, was thought likely to end in failure as had Chancellor Marx's identical attempt...
Significance. The acceptance of the Experts' Plan last summer involved amendments to the Constitution, which in turn involved the securing of a two-thirds majority. A two-thirds majority of the Reichstag was 314; the Government could command, with the Socialists, about 260. It was clear that the Monarchists had to be won over. On the promise by the Government to give them four seats (later cut to three) in the Cab- inet, about two-thirds of the Monarchists voted for the Government and the Experts' Plan legislation was enacted...
...opinion voiced in London is more current in Europe than Americans realize. Hans von Raumer, leader of the People's Party in the German Reichstag, has just sounded a warning to Europe of the American menace. Italy remembers with bitterness how steady was American opposition to her claims to Trieste and Flume. French newspapers have hardly finished congratulating themselves upon the election of Coolidge as staving off for four years more America's desire to meddle in European affairs...
...Rupprecht) because it is Catholic. "Ludy" is a fire-eating Protestant and pins his faith to the House of Hohenzollern. Nevertheless, he has had a remarkable following in Bavaria which he appears now to have lost. This seems likely to affect his chances of being re-elected to the Reichstag...