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...Peking, the Baron stayed until the War broke out, when he returned to his Fatherland and "served faithfully." After the War, he was chosen by Chancellor Wirth and Foreign Minister Rathenau to accompany them to Genoa where, largely owing to his knowledge of Russia, he was most influential in negotiating the famous Russo-German Treaty of Rapallo...
...Rome in the Doria Palace?lent by Prince Doria, descendant of the famed Genoa Admiral?containing 1,000 rooms with accommodations for 6,000 troops, assembled the Council of the League of Nations...
Italy is the classic land of dictators. To her long line of emperors and popes, to her commercial titans of Venice and Genoa, to her art masters of Florence and Rome, and to her indomitable Mussolini of contemporary fame, is now added another picker up of the discarded toga of Cincinnatus. All literary Europe is agog over Benedetto Croce who poses, and by many is accepted, as the Doctor Johnson of his day. Scholar, statesman, and philosopher, his most recent work in the field of literary criticism is an astonishing volume upon "European Literature of the Nineteenth Century...
...with Lenin?how he had advocated murder and Lenin had advocated the organization of the proletariat to oust the Tsar from his throne. He told of a plot to kill Rakovsky (now Charge d'Affaires in Great Britain), and Foreign Minister Tchitcherin in Berlin as they returned from the Genoa Conference in 1922. He told of many more interesting things...
When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion. He, like Demosthenes, believed that the first, second and third parts of oratory were all "action." He consented to send a representative to the Genoa Conference, but upon the conspicuous failure of that meet, M. Poincare sent his soldiers to the Ruhr and stuffed wool into his ears...