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...Soviet Russia. Therefore President Paul von Hindenburg bestowed the most important diplomatic appointment in his gift, last week, when he sent Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, erstwhile Chief of the Eastern Division of the German Foreign Office to Moscow, as German Ambassador. The new appointee succeeds late famed Ambassador Count Brockdorff-Rantzau. Dr. von Dirksen served during the War as an officer of Uhlans, began his diplomatic career with the Republic in 1918, has never before held ministerial position or ambassadorial rank. C. Prime Minister Hermann Miiller appointed and despatched officials to administer $5,000,000 in unemployment doles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Republican Notes | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...German Ambassador to Soviet Russia, Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, has been present or represented from the first, striving constantly to assure a fair trial for employes of the A. E. G. who stand accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Shahkta | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...beaten bully is again howling for mercy. The latest whine of the German peace delegation declares the treaty framed by the Versailles Conference to be "more than the German people can bear." Count von Brockdorff-Rautzau asserts: "the more deeply we penetrate into the spirit of this treaty, the more convinced we become of the impossibility of carrying it out." This statement makes us wonder in what spirit of liberality a victorious German government would have imposed peace terms. At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, France pleaded in vain. Two of her fairest provinces were torn from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACTS VS. SENTIMENT. | 6/3/1919 | See Source »

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