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September: Taking Old Brer Briand in tow, Premier Laval junketed to Berlin, conferred with Chancellor Bruning and Foreign Minister Curtius (since resigned), achieved little or nothing, but boosted his fame enormously and is said to have made a warm friend of Dr. Bruning. ("What a man!" Visitor Laval exclaimed to beaming German newshawks. "I wish there were more such men in France...
...snap his shutter openly. He has attended League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets, King of the Indiscreet...
Certainly Protege Chancellor Bruning had troubles enough last week. Mounting opposition from moderate Reichstag Deputies (tired of his Dictatorship) had to be crushed. Ruthlessly the Chancellor cut out of his Cabinet several old friends, notably moderate Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius whose portfolio Dr. Bruning took himself, then revamped his whole Cabinet on strictly dictatorial lines. Martinet General Wilhelm Groener he retained as Minister of War, gave him also the Ministry of Interior, thus concentrating in one man complete control of the Army and of all German municipal police. The new cabinet...
...enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives lustily cheered Herren Laval & Briand. Statesmen Laval, Brüning, Briand and Curtius formally organized their "Franco-German Economic Committee" (TIME, Sept. 28), a bit of window-dressing ostensibly destined to mitigate tariff barriers, aid in disposing of the products of both countries. MM. Laval & Briand dined with Chancellor Brüning at the German Chancellery, lunched with Dr. Curtius, paid a morning...
...gesture, that they were about to pay the first official visit to Germany that any leading French statesman has made since Napoleon. They wanted to know what good it would do. What would they talk about when they got there? When Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius paid their visit to Paris two months ago (TIME, July 27) the world Press felt that the mere fact that German statesmen had made such a visit was cause enough for celebration. Not so the logical French. They complained bitterly that the German statesmen had come with no definite plan...