Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last. To correspondents Mr. George vigorously declared: "I don't intend to fall! I mean to go forward to complete the great tasks that lie before liberalism...
Plebiscite. June 20 has been set by the Cabinet as the date for Germany's long heralded showdown between the Monarchists and the Left parties: the great plebiscite (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) to determine whether the Reich may retain without compensation property seized from onetime German nobility and royalty...
...Showdown. Chancellor Luther ascended the Tribune after his henchmen had assiduously bruited it about that he carried in his pocket an order for the dissolution of the Reichstag which bore the signature "Paul von Hindenburg." If the vote of confidence should be defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment...
...Briand. Suppose the Socialist wing of the Cartel should get out of hand once more? They reflected that a Socialist party caucus was shortly to be convoked. After that it might or might not be evident that the Socialists would line up solidly with the Cartel. Why risk a showdown with Briand before them? In a word, all these Cartellist doubts served to persuade Cartellist Ministers Chautemps, Deladier, Durafour and Renoult that they ought to do M. Briand's bidding once more...
...this was taken as an open menace to the Nationalists, and as a threat to force a showdown before the electorate, if they succeed in scotching the Locarno treaties in the Reichstag...