Proposed Nationalist Measure Thrown Out Berlin, Nov. 29.
In the course of a debate in the!
tag to-day on the Nationalist rains the enslavement of the hich repudiates: and stipulates that any German minister signing an agreement imposing burdens on Germany shall be liable to trial for high treason, the Foreign Minister, Dr, Curtius, made a statement on the subject.
After announcing that the Cabinet expected rejection of the Bill and that there would be a referendum on December 22, he said that the Government regarded the Bill as an attack against the authority of the State and the fo Ministry.
Tu Curtius ridiculed the assertion that the Government's foreign policy was based on recognition of Germany" war guilt, He declared that the Government had repeatedly repudifated war guilt and stood by this repudiation.
The Foreign Minister made a bitter attack against the author of the demand for a referendum against the Young Plan. "If freeing Germany from the claims of Versailles! were so rimple," he declared, "Dr. Streemann (his predecessor) would not have been obliged to sacrifice Reichstag to-day, by rejected the Nationalist] wyement of the German people," which repudiated all post-War treaties and stipulated that any German Minister signing an agreement imposing burdens on Germany should be liable to trial for high treason.
All the Government parties voted! against the Bill, the minority, con-sleting of extreme Nationalists, The fourth article of the Bill, demanding the prosecution of any Chancellor, Minister, or representative of the Reich who signed agreements like the Young Plan, was rejected by 812 votes to 60, many Ni tionalists abstaining from voting.
The rejection of the Bill occurred on the same day the laet French flag was hauled down from the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, in Coblenz, fand the Belgian flag from Aix-la-Chapelle, amid the jubilations of the inhabitants of the freed territory.
Secession of Prominent Members Dee.
Shouts of "Bloodhound! Murder-ex!" resounded through the Reichstag during the first reading of the Bill for the Protection of the Republic last evening.
The Communists did their utmost to prevent the Minister for the Interior from speaking and. blew: whistles and yelled whenever rose to attempt to do 20. Six Com-
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