Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the War, Germany has been enduring the birth-pangs of a new political order. Reaction against the Hohenzollerns threatened to throw the nation, with Russia, into the Soviet regime. Then from Bavaria sprang the counter-reaction that has fought persistently against the new republican government. Some of the chief war leaders have been the nominees of this party. Its fortunate failure was symbolized in this last election by the total of four votes cast for Emperor William...
...Otto Braun, Socialist, Republican...
Being a Southerner, he is a Democrat. The State, during his governorship, was predominantly Republican, but, in 1908, the Republican legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate and the U. S. public inspected him for the first time. He had a retiring chin, a blunt nose, shrewd eyes and, at that time, a fine head of dark hair beginning to be streaked with gray. He was reserved, goodnatured, low-voiced, quiet, yet had the courage to precipitate a party row and fight it through?as afterwards developed...
...second election, it is expected that Socialists, Democrats and Centrists will join forces to elect a purely Republican Candidate. Ex-Chancellor Wilhelm Marx seemed their probable choice; but it would be rash to predict that he will win, for the attitude of the Socialists toward a Catholic candidate is not likely to be unanimous and the monarchically inclined parties were considered just as likely to coalesce in the last effort to snatch a victory. It seems a fair assumption that either Marx or Jarres will be Germany's next President...
...followers and his dependence on them to retain his Premiership, Herriot must of necessity oppose the Church. Ever since the Concordat of Napoleon with the Vatican, which established its position in France, the Catholic Church has been on the side of the Rovalists, and therefore directly opposed to republican principles. Furthermore the breaking of the Concordat in 1904 and Poincare's attempt to re-establish it in 1923 have aggravated a tense situation...