Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joffe was 44 years old when he died. Born in the sunny Crimea, he joined (at the age of 17) the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, the left wing of which became the present Bolshevist movement. An education in Russia being consequently denied to him, he went to Berlin and there studied medicine (1903-6), thence to Zürich to study law (1907), thence to Vienna to study law & medicine. His departure from Berlin was precipitated by the authorities who, on account of his radicalism, considered him an undesirable alien...
...final period in his life was devoted to consolidating the revolution. He was first entrusted with the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, being later succeeded there by Leon Trotsky. He then was appointed first Soviet Ambassador to Berlin, whence twelve years before he had been expelled. His activities in preparing the way for the German revolution, however, forced the Imperial Government to hand him his passports. He returned home to become Commissar for Foreign Affairs...
Vienna was agog last week when the German Chancellor, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, arrived to return the official visit made a year ago to Berlin by the then Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Rudolph Ramek...
...additional investments by the Republic. The annual payments for the first four years increased only from 250,000,000 to 500,000,000 marks, while the payment for the fifth year and all subsequent years is 1,250,000,000 marks. The representative of the Reparations Commission in Berlin has already written to the German Minister of Finance, reminding him of the additional funds which must be on hand to meet this increase...
GEORG TCHITCHERIN (cheat-cher-'een), 55, is Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Onetime aristocrat and diplomat, he threw up his appointment in Berlin in 1905, associated himself with the Socialist movement, was banished from Germany in 1908, since when he has remained an ardent Bolshevist. During the War he was imprisoned in England whence he was expelled in 1917. returning to Russia in January, 1918. As Foreign Commissioner he has been noted for his suave touch and clever diplomacy in the conduct of the foreign affairs...