From time to time Frank also spoke out on foreign policy matters. He used the 1911 Morocco Crisis to denounce again the circumscribed political power of the parliament. In France the national parliament was permitted to decide on foreign treaties and agreements: its German counterpart was not. He also demanded, on behalf of the Social Democrat group in the Reichstag, that an inter-governmental understanding with France and Britain should be set up, in view of the 1911 crisis, and in order to ensure that any future such international crisis would not spill over into something even more serious. A series of Social Democratic peace demonstrations on the city streets in Germany at this time illustrated the widespread popular desire for a peaceful understanding between Germany and neighbouring states.