Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, last week, the Tagliche Rundschau, which often speaks for Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, thundered: ". . . Unpardonable distortion of the circumstances of Fraulein Cavell's death. . . . Let us hope that the British Government will find a way to suppress the film...
...jumping off a bridge at Berlin in 1920 an obscure young woman started ripples of cause and effect which expanded in grandeur until, last week, she stepped off the Bejengaria, at Manhattan, as Her Imperial Highness, Anastasia, fourth and youngest daughter of the last Tsar of all the Russias...
...whole." Expression of such "hopes" amounts to giving notice that the whole structure of interallied debts and German reparations must shortly be readjusted. That is the view of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert, who has recently conveyed his conclusions to the Cabinets at Washington, London, Paris and Berlin (TIME, Dec. 26) by personal visits to those governments...
Throughout the trial Count Bethlen could curl his thin lips over a telegraphic appeal for mercy despatched to him from Berlin by several authors of world fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny...
...Prittwitz-Gaffron" (as he often calls himself) believes diplomacy should be based on economics and publicity. After two years in the U. S. (1908-1910) as an attache, he saw much of the pre-War diplomacy-of-deception at St. Petersburg and in the Berlin Foreign Of- fice. For a time, he was personal secretary to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg. He fought in the War, being badly wounded. Following Germany's Revolution, he helped found the Democratic Club in Berlin but did not leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome...