Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solid, rational Teutons, there ensued argument and negotiation which continued for one hour, two, three, three and a half. Herr Langkopf, without ever removing his finger from the detonator of his bomb, stated passionately a case which was soon to rouse the sympathy of almost the entire German press...
Once in jail, Heinrich Langkopf made his great apologia on the basis of the following facts: 1) In 1914 he was established in German East Africa as a planter; 2) Immediately upon the declaration of War, he enlisted, fought, lived to see his whole property confiscated by the Allies; 3) For the past eight years he has been in Berlin with his wife and child, seeking the indemnity which is due him from the German War Indemnification Office, of which Privy Councilor Hugo Bach is chairman; 4) Due to bureaucratic delays, he has received only 9,000 marks, although promised...
When these details were known German editorial writers passionately cast the entire blame upon the Allies & The Dawes Plan. Had not the Fatherland been unjustly oppressed, they said, poor Heinrich Langkopf would long ago have received adequate compensation, would not have been driven to the last extremity...
...definite result of Prince Carol's presence in Nice and Monte Carlo was to interrupt momentarily certain German-Rumanian financial negotiations which had been proceeding quietly at nearby Mentone. There Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann of Germany was taking an industrious rest cure at the sunny Hotel Cap Martin (TIME, Feb. 13). He had been joined by Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania, who recently visited Rome and Paris; and with the arrival of German Finance Minister Heinrich Koehler the negotiations were in full swing. They related to Rumania's claim upon Germany for redemption of the German...
Improvisations in June. Big business men are unpopular with playwrights and U. S. big business men are unpopular with Europeans. In this, the latest addition to the Civic Repertory catalogue, a German playwright, Max Mohr, neglecting the scented graces at which his title hints, amuses himself by tossing medicine balls at the ugly face of a U. S. rooney glutton. His satire, which was immensely successful in Europe, is sophisticated and sentimental; it is probable that even the most hardened plutocrat who watches the unfolding of the myth will feel less shamed than delighted when the young lovers, scorning...