EX-RULERS’ PROPERTY
FIERCE FIGHT IN REICHSTAG
CONCESSION TO SOCIALISTS
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! (Australian & N.Z Cable Association.) BERLIN, June 26. A fierce fight over the. ex-Rulers' Claims Bill is raging among the judicial committee preliminary to- the presentation 'bill in the Reichstag. The Government continues concessions 10 the Socialists, whose latest amendment stipulates that capital sums or income paid by ex-rulers shall he employed only to cover their personal private needs or for charitable and cultural purposes; also no capital handed over to rulers •shall be removed from Germany. This the Government accepted in spile of the indignation of Nationalists, who maintain that the purposes of the Socialists are la humiliate ex-rulers. If the Bill is altered in compliance with the Socialists’ demands they will vote iri favour of it; but whether the Nationalists can prevent the necessary two-thirds majority remains to be seen. Cabinet made it known that alternative toi acceptance will be dissolution.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 28 June 1926, Page 5
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154EX-RULERS’ PROPERTY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 28 June 1926, Page 5
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