Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communist strike in the Ruhr, which has reached serious dimensions, a discord developing between France and Belgium over the lines upon which the next note will be sent to Germany after the expected note from Berlin, and the German political situation are the principal factors affecting the Ruhr problem...
...Italian support, which is precisely what France desires to avoid. It seems that France must either admit all the Allies into the Ruhr discussion or try to drown the harmony of an orchestra with a noisy trombone. It is, therefore, probable that an Allied reply will be sent to Berlin...
...University he fell easily into the beer-drinking, dueling, heavily jovial life of the student clubs. He was never able to drink more than 18 mugs of beer at a sitting, however. An attempt to conquer Berlin with his pen failed utterly?he went back to his father's farm?a failure?known everywhere as " the student who had wasted his time...
...Berlin again?utter poverty?furious labor, this time on a novel?failure once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there...
Leon Trotzky: "My brother, M. Bronstein, in Berlin lost a fortune speculating in marks. So I sent...