Word: curtius
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...last week, when the second Hague Conference met, the new "Big Three" were seen to be CURTIUS, TARDIEU and SNOWDEN, with the courageous, crippled and allegedly crapulous* little Yorkshireman totally missing from headlines because, having bitten off $9,520,000 worth of "spongecake." he has sensibly shut his mouth...
...these arrangements, for the lower house had just risen a few days before. But a big, bland tablecloth covered chinks and splinters, was only a little lumpy. Eyeing each other shrewdly sat the two young statesmen, newly great, between whom the chief issues of last week lay: Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late great Dr. Gustav Stresemann as Foreign Minister of the German Republic; and M. André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu, famed as "L'Americain," successor to M. Aristide Briand as Prime Minister of the French Republic...
...Curtius is 52, Tardieu is 53. In the way of Democracy v. Autocracy jaunty Captain Tardieu of the 44th Alpine Chasseurs, was wounded and received the Legion d'Honneur's red rosette "for extraordinary courage...
Meanwhile, as commander of a German battery, Dr. Curtius rushed his guns forward at a crucial moment in the Battle of Verdun, demolished an important French fort, was promoted to the staff of the then Commander-in-Chief of the German Offensive, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, and received from the Imperial hand itself the Iron Cross. Quiet Dr. Curtius, who looks even more like a U. S. businessman than M. Tardieu, is the first soldier to be appointed Foreign Minister of the German Republic...
...lawyer by trade, like Stresemann, and one of his protegés in the moderate People's party, Dr. Curtius entered the German cabinet in 1926, served hand-in-glove with the great foreign minister until his death. Whilst Stresemann strove for peace by diplomacy, Curtius, as Minister of Economic Affairs, patched up the first post-War commercial treaty between France and Germany. He is a low tariff man, a quiet optimist, a vigorous advocate of more and still more loans from abroad, "loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt...