Word: curtius
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...balance last week, the German foreign office issued an inevitable denial. But no steps were taken against Correspondent Knickerbocker. Organs friendly to the German government did not flay him. One bitter government critic, Nationalist Deputy Axel Freytagh-Loringhoven, dashed into print with a polemic against German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, accused him of clumsily letting slip the first opportunity beaten Germany has had to play off two of her former enemies against each other. He declared that Dr. Curtius could have wangled concessions for the Reich from both France and Italy had he been smarter...
...Rhineland are now the business of Germany alone, but last week official France was annoyed. Shaggy-headed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand paid an official visit of protest to the German Embassy in Paris. In Berlin French Ambassador Pierre de Margerie paid another to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. At a meeting of French War veterans at Lencloitre, near Poitiers, French Minister of Justice Raoul Peret cried...
Only two facts made the "Hindenburg Cabinet" more than a house of cards: 1) The enormous psychological power of the name HINDENBURG, enough to paralyze many an opponent; 2) The wise retention of Dr. Julius Curtius (handpicked successor to STRESEMANN as Foreign Minister. With these two names' and a reputation, for integrity, Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning prepared to face the Reichstag...
...again sputtered the same correspondent, "don't you know that Foreign Minister Julius Curtius [who signed the Young Plan for Germany at The Hague] considers that what you call the 'Hague Protocol' does not permit the applications of sanctions against Germany...
...Nobody outside of Germany," he shot back, "believes in Curtius' legalistic interpretation!" In fact, as everyone knows. Prime Minister Andre Tardieu is popular at Paris very largely because Frenchmen believe that he obtained the right of sanctions at The Hague. On the other hand, Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, who was matched against the shrewd Tardieu and the stubborn little Snowden, feels that he came off with the best deal possible under the circumstances, and is never tired of reminding his fellow Germans that France has agreed to take sanctions only in case the world court has first ruled that Germany...