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Thus last week the Private Secretary of Old Paul von Hindenburg explained to correspondents why Der Alte Feldmarschall sent only the frostiest expression of official regret through German Ambassador at Paris, Dr. Leopold von Hoesch. Meanwhile German news organs indignantly recalled how Victor Foch had "rubbed it in." Facts are that when Herr Matthias Erzberger entered the Allied Generalissimo's staff car at the head of the German Armistice Commission to sue for peace, he was pointedly ignored by Foch who remarked to his staff: "Who are these gentlemen? What do they want...
...seldom that a young diplomat is appointed to an ambassadorship without first having served as a minister to some relatively unimportant country. A recent case in the German diplomatic service is that of the now German Ambassador to France, Dr. von Hoesch, who was Counselor of the Embassy in Paris before being elevated to his present rank. However, Dr. von Prittwitz is reputedly one of the cleverest diplomats in the employ of the Reich and one that apparently enjoys the full confidence of his superiors in the Wilhelmstrasse...
Inside the Palace, Dr. von Hoesch was received by President Millerand in the presence of Premier Poincaré and the Presidential Household with all the pomp and ceremony customary on such occasions...
...President paid tribute to Ambassador Mayer, Dr. von Hoesch's predecessor, and spoke favorably upon the impression which Dr. von Hoesch had made in Paris as Chargé d'Affaires and said that it was fortunate that he assumed his position "personally informed .regarding the thoughts and the will of France...
...German Ambassador to France was withdrawn on Jan. 10, 1923, as a protest against the occupation of the Ruhr. Dr. von Hoesch was left at Paris as Chargé d'Affaires...