Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A nice old gentleman with profuse white whiskers went out for a walk in Madrid last week accompanied by his daughters. Soon roisterous students appeared, shouting words for which many a Spaniard has been shot:
A 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...
Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling...
*General Hans von Seeckt, organizer and first commander of the German Reichswehr?post-War military machine. He resigned at the request of Allied military observers in 1926. Official reason: for allowing a Hohenzollern prince to take part in German Army maneuvers.
"Down with the King! Long live the Republic! Hurrah for Sanchez Guerra!"