Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, the "German Lloyd George," suffered a combined attack of influenza and kidney trouble which was expected to keep him from his desk at the Foreign Office for at least a month...
...Chancellor (Premier) Dr. Wilhelm Marx pressed forward with a preliminary draft scheme which looks toward consolidation of the various German state governments in the interest of general administrative economy. This he presented to the Laenderkonjerenz, a council of the chief executives of all the 18 states which constitute the Republic of Germany, of which Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg is President...
From Paris came news which all Germans scanned eagerly. They learned that the Agent General of Reparations, Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, called last week upon Premier Raymond Poincaré of France, and drew from him an admission that the French Government might soon consent to some scaling down of German reparations and to their fixation at a definite total sum. This last point was strongly urged by Agent Gilbert in his most recent report (TIME, Dec. 26), and, last week, he discussed it thoroughly not. only with M. Poincaré at Paris, but next day in Brussels with the Belgian...
Commenting on German prosperity. Dr. Koehler frankly admitted that his pessimistic budget calculations of last year have been happily rendered incorrect by the steady decline in unemployment and increase in taxable revenues. "But," added he, with characteristic caution, "the German economic boom seems to have reached its highest point...
Defense Minister Groener originally won fame, just after the armistice, by stepping resolutely into the post left vacant by General Erich Ludendorff, when that great neurasthenic fled in disguise to Sweden. It was Groener who ably and steadfastly assisted Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg to hustle home the huge, defeated German armies in safety and good order...