Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coconut." The official version of how this debacle came about is almost as grotesque as the comment made upon it by the Berlin Tageblatt: "From the jungles of Brazil a coconut has been hurled half around the world at the Glass House of the League...
...prestige of France and Germany had become involved up to the hilt over a matter intrinsically of secondary import. Premier Briand was expected by his countrymen to insert Poland as a buttress against anti-French influence on the Council from Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League...
...Ramsay Macdonald. While the Lord Mayor of London and many another beamed, Mr. Macdonald added: "and handle our affairs in a neighborly spirit." Having thus spoken, he put down the polished instrument into which he had been speaking. He had inaugurated the first commercial telephone service between London and Berlin. He had spoken well. Subsequent conversations were carried on at a three-minute rate equivalent to $4 during the day and $2.50 at night. Inquisitive persons asked: "To whom did Mr, Macdonald speak?" They were abashed to learn that he spoke to an underling of the Berlin Tageblatt, which forthwith...
...promote a banquet. But these Manhattan physicians and surgeons had) a more intimate reason. Dr. Welch was one of their number. He had graduated from their school in 1875, five years after finishing at Yale. In 1876 he went to Germany for further study in Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau and Berlin, interrupting his work for a six-year return...
...that Gladstone's previous premiership had lowered British prestige. Bismarck had become Europe's autocrat. So when Bismarck seemed to take control of Balkan affairs against Turkey, it touched the Imperial pride and anti-Gladstonianism of Disraeli, who promptly told Bismarck, "No!" Thus, despite Gladstonian moralizing, Disraeli went to Berlin in 1878, dictated a Treaty which left Turkey a little territory and Britain all the glory. Glorious indeed was the day when Bismarck summarized Europe by saying: "Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann...