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...Helmut Hirsch Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE SAAR PLEBISCITE OF 1935 HELMUT HIRSCH HE OFFICIAL JOURNAL of the League of Nations in January, 1935, reported as follows the vote which was to show whether, after fifteen years of international government, the Saar Territory...

... to interrupt reflections that fracture thinking, rather than seeking answers, the authors raise some questions inspired by writings in three moments: the revolt, the constituent process, and the “exit plebiscite.” Three types and foundations of writing—the street, the Peace Accord, and the proposal of a New...

...Vitrina Dystópica; Patricio Azócar Donoso; Hugo Sir Retamales The result of the 2022 plebiscite in Chile indicates a new stage of the Chilean neoconservative and oligarchic reaction, as well as of the mood of the social forces that developed with the 2019 revolt. Drawing on political research...

... responsibility for the entire dispute upon the shoulders of Pakistan. They could well agree with the now-deposed Krishna Menon s comments in addressing Gandhiji s death an­ niversary meeting in Bombay: as long as there is a government in the country worth its name, there will be no plebiscite to decide...

... and subjected to an alien rule against their protests. By the terms of peace,1 in which the inhabitants directly affected were allowed no voice, the League was given a mandate to govern in the capacity of trustee for a period of fifteen years, when a plebiscite is to be held, certain parts of Prussia...

... plebiscite” even more paradoxical: 62 percent of voters rejected a text approved by more than 66 percent of members of a convention elected by those very voters. 3 Thus, the presses of the ultraconservative newspaper El Mercurio , Chile's oldest and openly campaigning for the rejection, won public...

... the control of overseas peoples by alien powers. Among the fundamental things in which the American people believe, Woodrow Wilson, speaking on May 27, 1916, mentioned First, that every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which it shall live. Plebiscites to determine the national community...

... Chilean revolt constitution legitimate/illegitimate violence interruption contingency 1. On September 4, 2022, after the official transmission of the results of the “exit plebiscite” that determined the rejection of the constitutional proposal elaborated over the course of a year...

... elected by plebiscite ex­ pressed the national will better than could any parliament. A pam­ phlet on the extinction of pauperism which showed Saint-Simonianinfluence, proposed the reclamation of waste land by state-aided agri­ cultural colonies. In all this, socialism was mixed with nationalism...

... of the plebiscite held in the Papal States, October 2, 1870, the New York Herald (Oct. 4, 1870) de­ clared that the vote meant that the dogma of papal infallibility was accepted by the people of the States of the Church as signifying 226 The South Atlantic Quarterly nothing, at least in temporal affairs; it meant...

.... The period began with the dramatic German withdrawal from the London Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations, but these acts could be inter­ preted as more damaging than helpful to Germany s international posi­ tion. The Saar plebiscite came off smoothly enough in Germany s favor, but the attempted...

.... The period began with the dramatic German withdrawal from the London Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations, but these acts could be inter­ preted as more damaging than helpful to Germany s international posi­ tion. The Saar plebiscite came off smoothly enough in Germany s favor, but the attempted...

... of sixty years ago. He refers to a Dunkirk-type evacuation of Pershing s army (p. 43) and a Gallup Poll-style plebiscite (p. 66). He frequently writes of oil-rich Mesopotamia and oil-rich Iraq and in one place contends that Britain, France, and Italy intended to control most of the Middle East s...

... plebiscites were employed to determine the real wishes of the population. Finally, the lands along the lower Vistula which were given to Poland (the so-called Polish Corridor) constituted the only prac­ ticable means of access from the interior of that country to the Baltic Sea; and no less an authority than...

... refused to accept the government s resignation. Second, he dissolved the Assembly and transformed the resultant elections into a per­ sonal plebiscite through which he defeated the anti-Gaullist majority in the old chamber. In any case, de Gaulle s own position has remained unshaken. For nearly six years...

... at this moment, the principle of consensus around one figure in the ruling elite was established: de facto, the elections took the form of a plebiscite. The president, as the source of decisions, became the authority at the edges of the political battle. And Parliament, deprived of the ability to pass its...

..., we ask consumers.The more who buy, vote, or choose, the more something is worth. Instead of using criti- cism and aesthetic judgment of the internal qualities of an object, artwork, or text to determine its value, we use the plebiscite. Symbolic values associated with sport are not immune...

... up. The unreliability of the Croat and Slovene regiments in the south Slav army, openly demonstrated in 1941, was pointed out in full detail in this fall of 1934. November 29, 1934, an All Croatian Congress, which claimed to represent the one million Croats of North America, demanded a plebiscite...

...” toward the victory of the proposal for the New Constitution, as an effective possibility of putting an end to Pinochetism and its neoliberal constitution. But many people read the shift toward the plebiscite and the need for the victory of the option to approve the New Constitution as a suspension...

..., suggesting infecting all of it without leaving any space safe, suffocating the distances of any political theater, more than expressing a mutation, a change of nature, a social event, does not appear—after the rejection of the proposed constitution in the plebiscite on September 4, 2022—to have constituted...