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...Berlin the German Foreign Minister, Dr. Julius Curtius, addressed the Reichsrat or Federal Council of the German States last week upon the Young Plan. "We shall not tear up the new plan," said he. "But we have not guaranteed its feasibility. . . . There has set in such a complete collapse of world economy, especially in its bearing on Germany's economic situation, as wholly to vitiate the suppositions upon which the plan is based...
...these circumstances, continued Dr. Curtius, the time may come when the German Government may reluctantly ask for a moratorium (postponement) of that portion (about two-thirds) of the payments scheduled under the Young Plan, known as the "postponable portion...
Should the German Government attempt to postpone the "non-postponable" one-third, this would be a step on the road to repudiation, a step which Dr. Curtius in effect promised that Germany will not take when he said last week, "We shall not tear up the plan...
...Treaty and the way the victors have administered it, he said, "incenses our people, and especially our Youth!" "The maintenance of Germany's armed forces," he added, "is the Reichstag's most important task. . . . Germany must recover her freedom!" [Widespread cheering, fierce Fascist cries of "Curtius must be imprisoned in a fortress!"-] Battle of Ballots. Result of the Chancellor's "fighting speech" was to consolidate and fire with new loyalty the Centrist-Socialist parties group which he leads -notwithstanding that the speech contained a qualifying statement that Germany will advance toward her aims ''solely along...
...Frankfort some evenings later the "Son of Heaven's" brother attended a Negro opera, Mahogany, rushed hastily into the street when objectors to this blackamoor performance broke it up with stink bombs. -Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius is famed for continuing the late, great Dr. Gustav Strese-mann's "line" or policy of peaceful co-operation with France...