Emil Lederer · 1920
This brief recorded speaking turn moves from a judgment that an earlier formulation went too far, despite corresponding to the previous year’s report, to the adequacy of the proposal:
Es fragt sich, ob der Vorschlag genügt.
English translation: The question is whether the proposal is sufficient.
Lederer then shifts attention from verbal precision to practical effect:
Wegen der Wirkung braucht man nicht jedes Wort so auf die Wagschale zu legen. Ein Wort mehr würde nichts schaden.
English translation: As far as the effect is concerned, one need not weigh every word so carefully. One more word would do no harm.
His intervention favors latitude in wording. The excerpt does not identify the proposal’s substance, so it supports no broader reconstruction of his coal-mining policy.
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