Word: volkspartei
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rally in the Konzerthaus, earnest, 75-year-old Dr. Karl Renner, provisional Chancellor, gave 10,000 Viennese some stirring news: Socialist, Communist and Volkspartei leaders had united to demand return of the South Tyrol, which Italy had taken after World War I. The Big Five Foreign Ministers had tabled the appeal at London, but at least they had not killed...
...lowest paid chief of state in Europe. Like all Austrian government employes, he receives 150 shillings ($15) a month. As Chancellor, Dr. Renner, a longtime Social Democrat, provisionally holds the presidency and portfolios of Foreign and Military Affairs. Of his nine ministers, three are members of the Volkspartei (old Christian Socialists), two are Socialists, two Communists and two without party affiliation...
Both Socialist and Volkspartei members vigorously deny that the government was formed under pressure from either Austrian Communists or Russians. To Allied eyes the Renner Government looked like a put-up job when the first news came over the Moscow radio. Now the Austrians insist that Renner sent notification simultaneously to Britain, the U.S. and Russia, but that for some mysterious reason the messages to Washington and London never got through Russian censorship...
Soon fiery Count Kuno von Westarp, leader of the second largest political party in the land, Die Deutschnationale Volkspartei introduced a still more rabid Monarchist, Col. von Struense, who proceeded to utter things which Count von Westarp, because of his political status, dare not say. Bristling and bellicose, Col. von Struense roared: "A turning point in German history has arrived-this evening marks the beginning of a fight which can end only in the coronation of a German Kaiser...
Colors. Back to the colors went the 27 political parties of Germany. Under the banner of the schwars-rot-gold (black, red, gold?colors of the Republic) were grouped the Social Democrats (Socialists), Centriste (Catholic Party, quasi Monarchists), Volkspartei (People's Party, quasi Monarchists), Democrats and a number of smaller parties...