Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chancellor Marx's original plan was to unite the three bourgeois parties--Streseman's People's Party, Catholic Centrists, and Democrats--leaving the irreconcilable Nationalists and the Socialists on the right and left wings. Finding that no effective majority could thus be established in the Reichstag, Dr. Marx made overtures to the Nationalists. They refused, and the Democrats, affronted at the prospect of cooperating with the Nationalists, withdrew from the coalition. The continuance of the Cabinet became impossible, and at Chancellor Marx's request President Ebert is about to call a new election...
...possible that the German electorate, anxious for peace, will swing towards the moderate coalition, weakening the virulence of the Nationalist opposition. The liberal parties under the leadership of Marx will then be able to exert a unified control over the Reichstag majority, to put through the Dawes plan and to secure admission into the League. Beyond these foreign questions, the constituent parties of the coalition are hopelessly at loggerheads, and, these presiding problems of international relations once settled, will undoubtedly relapse into the usual chaotic multidivision of Continental politics...
...time that the Experts' Plan legislation was passed by the Reichstag (TIME, June 16), support from the moderate Monarchists was obtained by promising them seats in the Cabinet. The greatest supporter of this compromise was Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister and leader of the Volkspartei (People's Party). He argued that the inclusion of the Monarchists was most desirable from every standpoint: First, the Government should honor its promise; and second, Monarohist Ministers in the Cabinet would be a real step toward linking the past with the present...
...refused to join if the Socialists were to be represented. Foreign Minister Stresemann threatened to secede from the Government coalition unless Chancellor Marx gave the Monarchists the promised seats. The Chancellor wished to admit both Monarchists and Socialists into the Cabinet. The enigma defied solution. Resignations, dissolution of the Reichstag, with consequent general elections, were hinted. Herr Wirth, onetime Chancellor, and Herr Breitscheid, a Socialist leader, were mentioned as prospective Chancellor and Foreign Minister, respectively. Only one thing remained clear: Something had to be done. Beyond that, the future declined to speak...
...minute after minute joined the legions of the past, excitement grew higher and higher. At last the time came for announcing the result of the ballot. Baron Wallraf, President of the Reichstag, rose from his seat. There was dead silence, presaging a mighty storm. Would it be a storm of applause or a storm of indignation? Said the President...