Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers recalled how he had sped from Moscow to Berlin (TIME, Oct. 12) in an effort to keep Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany from going to the now famous Locarno Conference. From croaking throats came prophecies that M. Tchitcherin's presence in Paris last week foreboded a Communist uprising in France. To heads more subtle it appeared that M. Tchitcherin was at length approaching perilously near the truth when he spoke as follows to correspondents: "So! Let there be no rumors, gentlemen! I am merely passing through Paris on my way from Germany to Mentone [French Riviera...
Fritz Kreisler in Berlin received a letter: "I know your generous gifts. But I have never received a penny. I must have 20,000 marks, and unless I receive them I shall kill you on Tuesday...
...Dinner was a most imposing affair. Even in the old days at Berlin there was not more ceremony. The ex-Kaiser appeared in a glittering uniform, with decorations sparkling on his breast. . . . His consort (the former Princess Hermine) was magnificently gowned and all the staff were in full uniform. . . . I sat at the ex-Kaiser's right and next to me sat the Lord Chamberlain...
...always have had friendly feelings toward England. . . . I am confident that if honest diplomacy had been used, and if certain members of the Cabinet had visited Berlin before the World War, things would have been very different. To some extent it was a war of lawyers and I have always disliked lawyers...
Last week his remains were disinterred and transferred to Berlin aboard a special train. There the body rested in state at Grace Church, inclosed in a simple walnut coffin, and was visited by thousands of Berliners, who filed reverently past "The Flying Siegfried...