Word: curtius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curtius...
...that was what Statesman Stimson found he said nothing about it. He arrived at Berlin, called on Old Paul von Hindenburg, on Chancellor Brüning, on Foreign Minister Curtius, was solemnly taken to see the Greek sculpture in the Pergamon Museum and lunched on venison and Moselle in a public restaurant on the Wannsee (Tub Lake). Then he departed by Hook of Holland for London, passing en route Ramsay MacDonald and "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on their way to go through much the same performance...
...train Chancellor Brüning and Foreign Minister Curtius insisted to reporters that they were going to Paris with full liberty of action...
Both French and German delegations took the same train to London. Public smiles were even broader. Swarthy Laval waved a newspaper over his head and laughed out loud to the delight of photographers. German Foreign Minister Curtius had something real to smile about. Word had just reached him that he was for the first time a grandfather. But gloomy was Scot MacDonald who opened the conference that night. Said he: "If we cannot find a solution to the present crisis it will be difficult to stay the flood before it has overwhelmed the whole of Central Europe, with consequences-social...
Quick and spirited in his praise of the I. S. was German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. Said he: "What Andrew Mellon did is simply grandiose. To think that this fine old gentleman came over here expecting to spend most of his time with his son, and instead plunged into the in- tricacies of this discussion is simply great...