Word: curtius
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...Curtius v. Schacht. Chief of the German Delegation at The Hague last week was Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late, great Stresemann, and a comparative tyro at diplomacy. He had asked Dr. Schacht to come on from Berlin as a financial expert, found him suddenly as troublesome as a Golem or a Frankenstein...
However, Dr. Curtius had two bright ideas about how to deal with Dr. Schacht. First he proceeded to ignore him, assured the Allies that if the Reichsbank would not subscribe Germany's share of the B. I. S. capital, then the Prussian State Bank ("Preussische Staatsbank") and the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft would. Secondly he ordered his legal experts to search through the traveling library of documents which all diplomatic delegations carry and find a way to oust the obstreperous Reichsbank President, if necessary. A good lawyer enjoys nothing so much as trying to find...
...tempest of controversy brewed. Whereas a few weeks ago ratification of the Young Plan by the Reichstag seemed certain, correspondents of nearly all major news services now filed long despatches full of ominous doubts. Skillful Dr. Schacht had roused in the German public mind a fear that Dr. Curtius had conceded too much at The Hague-particularly on the issue of sanctions...
Once when Dr. Curtius asked leave to bring in one of the German experts, M. Tardieu snapped: "Bring in whomever you like! But-I repeat it-France will not yield!" (Many Paris editors chorused praise of the "dignity and firmness" of this typical Tardieuism...
Flustered Drs. Curtius and Moldenhaur -comparative novices at international negotiations-wired hastily for Germany's "Iron Man,'' stiff-necked Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank...