Word: curtius
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...Council ordered by unanimous vote that the 300 Allied troops still stationed there be withdrawn within three months. Theory: this shrewd French "concession" on the eve of the Reich elections (see p. 22) was expected to swing many a vote to the People's Party of "successful" Dr. Curtius, his party being the most friendly in Germany to France...
...Paris, shaggy-browed Aristide Briand immediately sent for German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch, talked to him like an uncle, sent him packing to Berlin to repeat B'rer Briand's remarks to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. White-chinned ex-President Raymond Poincaré, who, like ex-President Coolidge, is temporarily a newspaper columnist, wrote with spluttering...
...Revision. Apropos the German Government's reply last week the Cologne Gazette hailed M. Briand's idea ironically, prophesying that although the last thing France wants is revision of the Peace Treaties, nevertheless the European Union may lead to this. In his official reply Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius began by saying that, "No other state experiences in equal measure as does Germany the defects in the existing structure of Europe." Declaring the situation created by the Peace Treaties "untenable," he called for "courageous reform" (i.e. revision) as a necessary prelude to formation of the European Union...
...issue of whether the E. U. should be primarily economic or political. Dr. Curtius had this to say: "The French Gov- ernment stresses the necessity of approaching European problems from the political side, leaving economic issues to be dealt with after certain political prerequisites have been fulfilled." The German Government considers economic issues paramount, holds that "it remains the task of Governments to bring their joint economic policies into harmony." Clearly the German reply harked back to the original idea of an European tariff consortium...
Briefly, pointedly, German Foreign Minister Curtius replied to French protests that...