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Quick and spirited in his praise of the I. S. was German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. Said he: "What Andrew Mellon did is simply grandiose. To think that this fine old gentleman came over here expecting to spend most of his time with his son, and instead plunged into the in- tricacies of this discussion is simply great...
...Freedom & Bread!" Not without reason is Dr. Brüning called new Germany's "Iron Chancellor." He stood like iron against demands from his own Catholic Center Party that Dr. Curtius be "sacrificed"' to the mob, dropped from the Cabinet...
...Brüning crack up!" To take a calm view of the Germany which faced Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius on their return to Berlin last week indeed took nerve...
...Communists and a police captain were seriously injured. In Berlin order was preserved and bloodshed prevented only by heroic measures. Example: when 12,000 Communists mass met at the Sportspalast, perspiring policemen patted and searched every one of the 12,000 for arms. As Drs. Brüning and Curtius rode through Berlin on their re-turn Fascists jeered them yelling...
...Even Dr. Curtius' own People's Party seemed to want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...