Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann did not journey to Rome to sign the treaty, lest an impression be created in France that it is a really important rapprochement. Instead Dr. Stresemann, than whom no stateman in Europe is more astute, remained at Berlin and encouraged his party news organs to pronounce the treaty "purely an arbitration pact, and exactly like those already concluded between Germany and Holland, Switzerland, Norway...
...Germany has virtually complete commercial autonomy within the framework of the Plan. The Dawes Plan safeguards the Allies against German default by creating a virtual mortgage on German wealth (especially railways) in favor of the Allies. The Agent General of Reparations, at present Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, resides in Berlin as a sort of super-trustee. Under him is a comprehensive system of boards to adjust constantly outcropping problems, such as those of transfer...
Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann of Germany dared not give the assurances demanded lest he antagonize political forces at Berlin strong enough to upset the "Little Coalition" German Cabinet. He must win Allied concessions...
...difficult did it become to smooth such jagged edges at Geneva that Ministers Chamberlain, Briand and Stresemann adjourned the League Council, gathered at their hotel, and kept telephoning to Paris and Berlin most of the night...
...Council of the League of Nations. 3) Ad interim all work on the German forts along the Polish frontier shall stop. 4) The present Allied military commissioners in Germany will be permitted to remain, although reduced in numbers, as "technical experts" attached to the Allied legations in Berlin...