Neue Freie Presse
- A calmer session of the committee of inquiry
- Finance minister questioned again
- Polish cabinet resigns after a no-confidence vote against 2 ministers
The main heading characterizes the inquiry session as calmer and announces further questioning of the finance minister. A separate heading attributes the Polish cabinet’s resignation to a no-confidence vote against two ministers. This partial edition preserves those headings, without supplying testimony, names or procedural outcomes from the untranscribed articles.
Partial reading: inquiry heading and subheading, plus Polish cabinet heading and its reason; article bodies are not transcribed.
Translation
A calmer session of the committee of inquiry
A calmer session of the committee of inquiry.
Finance minister questioned again
Further questioning of the finance minister.
Polish cabinet resigns after a no-confidence vote against 2 ministers
Resignation of the Polish cabinet, because of a vote of no confidence in two ministers.
Context
Questioning financial authority
Calling the finance minister back for questioning places a senior holder of public financial responsibility before an investigative body. The interest lies in accountability: the minister must answer questions, rather than simply announce policy.
The atmosphere of an inquiry
Describing a session as calmer makes the conduct of the investigation itself news. Public hearings are also political encounters, in which the way officials and investigators confront one another can attract attention alongside the evidence.
Parliament after the Polish coup
Piłsudski’s victory in the May 1926 coup changed who held political power, but parliamentary institutions continued to operate. A no-confidence vote concerning 2 ministers could therefore become a crisis for the cabinet as a whole.
Original
Eine ruhigere Sitzung des Untersuchungsausschusses.
Eine ruhigere Sitzung des Untersuchungsausschusses.
Neue Einvernahme des Finanzministers.
Neue Einvernahme des Finanzministers.
Demission des polnischen Kabinetts. Wegen eines Mißtrauensvotums gegen zwei Minister.
Demission des polnischen Kabinetts. Wegen eines Mißtrauensvotums gegen zwei Minister.