Meanwhile the nationalists announced that they were going to hold a plebiscite to determine the attitude of the Egyptian people.
Forbidden by the British authorities, the plebiscite was nevertheless illegally held, and resulted, according to the nationalists, in an overwhelming popular indorsement of their demands.
In August the result of the plebiscite was announced: among three and a half millions of votes only a few thousand were in the negative.
The council of state then took up the matter and proposed to ask for a plebiscite on the question, Shall Napoleon Bonaparte be consul for life?
On December twenty-second, before the result of the plebiscitewas known, the new charter was put in operation.
On 11 March Hitler sent an ultimatum, demanding that the plebiscite be called off or that Germany would invade Austria.
Hitler, two days later, sent an ultimatum to Schuschnigg that theplebiscite must be withdrawn.
This approval of the Führer's decision is even more clear and effective if the plebiscite is concerned with an aim which has already been realized rather than with a mere intention.
The purpose of the plebiscite is not to let the people act in the Führer's place or to replace the Führer's decision with the result of the plebiscite.
After fifteen years a plebiscite will be held by communes to ascertain the desires of the population as to continuance of the existing régime under the League of Nations, union with France or union with Germany.
On May 12, the Milanese Government issued a decree that the population of Lombardy should decide by a plebiscite the question whether Lombardy should be immediately incorporated with Piedmont under the rule of Charles Albert.
Whether in the territories where constitutional alterations were to be made owing to the war the right of self-determination should be taken as already exercised, or whether a plebiscite should be taken first; 2.
Rothalp, in daily communication with the sous-prefet, you believe that the object of this Plebiscite is to confirm peace?
You say that this has nothing to do with the Plebiscite; but that Plebisciteis for all this nice arrangement of things to go on.
It was, as it were, the Plebiscite advancing upon us under our own eyes, armed with pistol and sword, the guns and the bayonets behind.
So those who did not care to become Prussians took up arms, George and I the first; myself with the greatest zeal, for every day I reproached myself with that abominable Plebiscite as a crime.
The Germans fancy that we have named him Emperor to begin his uncle's tricks again; and now they look upon our Plebiscite as a declaration of war.
Should a plebiscite be held by popular initiation on a constitutional amendment, a majority of the electorate must be in favour.
An act of the Realm shall make further provisions as to such plebiscite and initiative.
No vote of the Reichstag may be abrogated by plebiscite unless a majority of the voters record their votes.
The plebiscite will be initiated by the Government of the Land or of one or more autonomous bodies comprising at least a quarter of the population concerned.
The President of the Realm is alone entitled to institute a plebiscite concerning the budget, taxation, or payment of officials.
No plebiscite shall be held should the Reichstag accept the Bill demanded without amendment.
If the population of a district wish to secede from their allegiance and join one or more German Free States, or form a Free State, a plebiscite is necessary.
A plebiscite must further be taken if one-tenth of the voters demand the introduction of a Bill; such a popular request must be based on a Bill prepared in due form.
The President of the Realm may be deposed from office before the expiry of his term by popular plebiscite on initiative of the Reichstag.
An Act whereof the proclamation has been deferred on request of one-third of the members of the Reichstag must be submitted to plebiscite should one-twentieth of the voters demand it.
Should the plebiscite reject deposition, such vote counts as a new election and entails the dissolution of the Reichstag.
The Government of the Realm shall order a plebiscite to take place if one-third of the total number of those who have a vote for the Reichstag, living within the territory affected, demand it.
But matters were smoothed over by the holding of a plebiscite in all the towns of Upper Silesia.
The result of this plebiscite was taken and exactly reversed by the council, so that the entire Engadine Valley was given to Sweden, who didn't want it anyway.
The desired constitution was submitted to a plebiscite by a decree of the President, although such a method of constitutional revision was clearly unconstitutional.
Their powers are by no means more valid by virtue of the recent elections, than was the power of Louis-Napoleon by virtue of the plebiscite of 1870.
The invitations were issued almost immediately after the journey just mentioned, and before the plebiscite had given the Prince-President the Imperial crown.
I quote from the entry of 10 March: “By surprise and without consulting his Ministers, Schuschnigg ordered a plebiscite for Sunday, 13 March, which should bring strong majority for the Legitimists in the absence of plan or preparation.
The question to be submitted in the plebiscite was: “Are you for an independent and social, a Christian, German, and united Austria?
The ground work was fully laid before the holding of the plebiscite “for German men and women of Austria” promised in the basic law of March 13.
Although the plebiscite was not announced until the evening of 9 March, the Nazi organization received word about it earlier in that day.
The plebiscite could only confirm the union declared in the law.
In case England should grant the inhabitants of Cyprus the right to pass under Greek sovereignty, Italy was to hold a plebiscite in Rhodes and let the native population become Greeks if they wished.
In case England should cede Cyprus to Greece, a plebiscite was to be taken at Rhodes within fifteen years, instead of five years as had been settled before.
The League of Nations was to decide in what manner this plebiscite was to be taken; meanwhile Italy would grant Rhodes a wide autonomy.
A Greco-Italian convention assigning the ‘Twelve Islands’ to Greece—a plebiscite was to be taken in regard to the sovereignty over Rhodes.
The case for the plebiscitewas put by the Premier and the Treasurer upon the second reading of the Bill.
But their opponents contrived to drop a spoonful of tar in Poland's pot of honey by ordering a plebiscite to take place in eastern Galicia within ten or fifteen years.
Dalmatian Delegation, to present to the President the result of the plebiscite of that part of Dalmatia occupied by Italians.
The French press pertinently asked whether it would not have been cheaper, safer, and more efficacious to have forgone the plebiscite and relied on the Polish troops from the outset.
