And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919Bouton, S. Miles (Stephen Miles)
History
And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919
Bouton, S. Miles (Stephen Miles)
Germany -- History -- Revolution, 1918; Germany -- Politics and government
Article 29 of the Treaty of Peace refers to Map No. 1 which
shows the boundaries of Germany and provides that the text of
Articles 27 and 28 will be final as to those boundaries.
Article 80 reads as follows:--
"Germany acknowledges and will respect strictly the
independence of Austria, within the frontiers which may be
fixed in a Treaty between that State and the Principal Allied
and Associated Powers; she agrees that this independence
shall be inalienable, except with the consent of the Council
of the League of Nations."
A diplomatic act was signed at Paris on September 22, 1919,
by the representatives of the Principal Allied and Associated
Powers and Germany in the following terms:
"The undersigned, duly authorized and acting in the name of
the German Government, recognizes and declares that all the
provisions of the German Constitution of August 11, 1919,
which are in contradiction of the terms of the Treaty of
Peace signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919, are null.
"The German Government declares and recognizes that in
consequence Paragraph 2 of Article 61 of the said
Constitution is null, and that in particular the admission of
Austrian representatives to the Reichstag could only take
place in the event of the consent of the Council of the
League of Nations to a corresponding modification of
Austria's international situation.
"The present declaration shall be approved by the competent
German legislative authority, within the fortnight following
the entry into force of the Peace Treaty.
"Given at Versailles, September 22, 1919, in the presence of
the undersigned representatives of the Principal Allied and
Associated Powers."
The number of votes is determined anew by the National Council after
every general census.
ARTICLE 62
In committees formed by the National Council from its own members no
State will have more than one vote.
ARTICLE 63
The States will be represented in the National Council by members of
their Cabinets. Half of the Prussian votes, however, will be at the
disposal of the Prussian provincial administrations in accordance with a
State law.
The States have the right to send as many representatives to the
National Council as they have votes.
ARTICLE 64
The National Cabinet must summon the National Council on demand by
one-third of its members.
ARTICLE 65
The chairmanship of the National Council and of its committees is filled
by a member of the National Cabinet. The members of the National Cabinet
have the right and on request [of the National Council] the duty to take
part in the proceedings of the National Council and its committees. They
must at their request be heard at any time during its deliberations.
ARTICLE 66
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