Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wirth, himself of the Centre Party, sought a Reichstag majority by placing in his cabinet a large proportion of Socialists. But the Rathenau murder and the Bavarian revolt revealed a strong monarchistic reaction which enlisted the industrialists headed by Hugo Stinnes and which concealed itself under the name of Liberal or People's Party. Hence the Wirth cabinet had arrayed against it not only the avowed monarchical Conservatives but the powerfully influential industrialists of the People's Party...
Chancellor Wirth has come before the Reichstag with plain-spoken declarations that have the air of an ultimatum. Germany, he says must have a complete moratorium for the coming year, and a foreign loan as well if she is to being to meet her obligations for 1922. As to the recent action of the Allied Reparations Committee, which has demanded additional taxes of sixty billion marks and Allied control of German finances, he declares arbitrarily that no government will be formed to meet those conditions. The Chancellor's speech was greeted in the Reichstag with cheers...
History, we are told, has a habit of repeating itself. The conquered Prussians, by means of an apparently harmless system of military training, were able to put on the field at Waterloo a force of men that turned the tide against Napoleon; today, "The Reichstag has voted a law to establish universally courses in physical training, lasting from one to two years, for all young men under twenty-five. Under an inoffensive name it has in reality created a complete system of intensive military training." The comparison is obvious...