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With Bachelor Brüning, Husband Curtius entered a sleeping car at Berlin. Both statesmen pulled down their blinds. Both went to sleep. Whenever the train halted on its way to Hamburg crowds gathered to cheer the German Delegation, but the blinds of Drs. Brüning & Curtius remained drawn. They gave no sign of life whatsoever en route...
...Curtius thoroughly bungled the Austro-German attempt to form a customs union (TIME, March 30 et seq.). Dr. Curtius has yet to win a major diplomatic victory. He is a family man, devoted to his small children. Whenever he returns to Berlin from an official mission the crust of his formal reception at the railway station is punctured by their loud whoops. Studious and a hard, clear thinker, Husband Curtius has much that a Foreign Minister should have-has no genius...
Arrived at Hamburg, the German Delegation went aboard the Hamburg-American liner Hamburg. Drs. Brüning & Curtius at once went up on the bridge. Playfully an officer took Chancellor Brüning by the arm, saying: "It is a rule of the Hamburg-American Line that all passengers must sleep in their berths from two to four in the afternoon." From two to four Bachelor Brüning slept in his berth. Husband Curtius said he would sleep in a deck chair, cheated, was caught reading Shakespeare's Macbeth...
Monastic Spartan. George & Mrs. Bernard Shaw were late for the luncheon party of 19 which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald gave to welcome Drs. Brüning & Curtius to "Chequers," the British summer White House. Mrs. Shaw appeared mortified, George, breezy and brazen as usual. By arriving late in a car which he drove himself, the red-whiskered Irishman kept waiting not only the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of two Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary...
...Henderson has been elected Chairman of next year's League Disarmament Conference (TIME, June 1). He and Dr. Curtius talked about that. Laborite A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the British Admiralty, also talked with the representatives of disarmed Germany about disarming other countries-an academic discussion. The BIG TALK at Chequers, secret, lasted until well past midnight-with a strange result...