KLAIPĖDOS KRAŠTO SEIMELIS: 1935 M. RINKIMAI
THE CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEMEL TERRITORY: THE ELECTION IN 1935

Summary/Abstract: During the period of sixteen years when Lithuania enjoyed sovereign rights over the Memel Territory, the Chamber of Representatives, the territorial legislature, was elected six times. All elections were coupled with political intrigues and struggles. However, the most bitter elections of the Chamber of Representatives took place in 1935. This chaos was described: in the letters of the Governor of the Memel Territory to the central government; the press diaries of the State Security Department; the bulletins of the State Security Police district in the Memel Territory; the reports of the Commander of the Memel Territory Border Police; the district investigator’s resolutions; the German and other states’ mass media; the complaints and protests of the Memel Territory residents; the declarations of the members of the regional election commissions to the Memel District Electoral Commission. Moreover, about thirty foreign journalists from such newspapers as Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Morning Post, Daily Telegraph, etc., observed the election. The reasons for such interest could have been the amendments made by the Central Government of Lithuania to the Law on the Elections of the Chamber of Representatives of the Memel Territory in 1935, the growing role of Germany in Europe, etc.

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