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With Bachelor Brüning, Husband Curtius entered a sleeping car at Berlin. Both statesmen pulled down their blinds. Both went to sleep. Whenever the train halted on its way to Hamburg crowds gathered to cheer the German Delegation, but the blinds of Drs. Brüning & Curtius remained drawn. They gave no sign of life whatsoever en route...
Germans en Route. Young Chancellor Brüning took with him to London his slightly older Foreign Minister, Dr. Julius Curtius, 54, a by no means brilliant successor to the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann...
Arrived at Hamburg, the German Delegation went aboard the Hamburg-American liner Hamburg. Drs. Brüning & Curtius at once went up on the bridge. Playfully an officer took Chancellor Brüning by the arm, saying: "It is a rule of the Hamburg-American Line that all passengers must sleep in their berths from two to four in the afternoon." From two to four Bachelor Brüning slept in his berth. Husband Curtius said he would sleep in a deck chair, cheated, was caught reading Shakespeare's Macbeth...
Monastic Spartan. George & Mrs. Bernard Shaw were late for the luncheon party of 19 which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald gave to welcome Drs. Brüning & Curtius to "Chequers," the British summer White House. Mrs. Shaw appeared mortified, George, breezy and brazen as usual. By arriving late in a car which he drove himself, the red-whiskered Irishman kept waiting not only the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of two Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary...
Three years ago the obscure name of Heinrich Brüning was not in Germany's Who's Who. He was born in 1885 at Munster in Westphalia, son of a distiller who knew for certain the names of his prosperous ancestors as far back as the 16th Century...