Word: curtius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson was in London for last July's economic conference, Herr Dr. Julius Curtius, Germany's Foreign Minister, whispered news into his ear: Frau Barbara von Haeften, Minister Curtius' daughter, had just borne a son in Berlin, Foreign Minister Curtius' first grandson. As a diplomat should. Statesman Stimson remembered this fact when, later, he reached Berlin. At a toy store he selected and sent to small Grandson Jan von Haeften a large sailboat. Last week a letter from Berlin reached Statesman Stimson in Washington...
...HAEFTEN "First grandson of Dr. J. Curtius, Reichs Minister des Ausseren...
Correspondents were a little uncertain of the exact significance of the Briining-Curtius visit. Officially it was a "visit of courtesy" to thank Mussolini for his quick acceptance of the Hoover Moratorium, to discuss general European conditions. Imaginative reporters were quick to whisper "anti-French alliance...
...place a tiny topper that balanced precariously on his domelike forehead. At the Vatican the Swiss Guards were wrongly informed of the hour of his arrival. Parti-colored men at arms were still scurrying about the courtyard of San Damaso when the German automobile drew up. Foreign Minister Curtius, who is Protestant, paid a separate visit some hours later...
Somebody did not bother to learn just which train was taking Chancellor Brüning and Foreign Minister Curtius back from Rome last week. As the regular Basle-Berlin express passed over an embankment near Jiiterbog, 40 miles from Berlin, an electrically wired artillery shell exploded beneath it. Nine cars were hurled from the track, rolled down the embankment. Fifteen people were seriously wounded; miraculously, no one was killed. In the dining car a cook was hurled into a cauldron of consomme, critically scalded. Nailed to a telegraph pole near the track was a front page of the Fascist...