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Death came kindly last week to Dr. Hermann Müller, the Socialist Deputy who "threw away his career" by signing the Treaty of Versailles for Germany, then fooled everyone by twice becoming Chancellor of the German Republic...
...Author. Jo Van Ammers-Küller, foremost Dutch novelist, was born in Delft (famed for ceramics and Painter Jan Van Delft Vermeer) of a family of doctors and lawyers. Her early writings awoke parental anxiety. At 20 she married, discontinued writing until her two sons were in school. When her husband became director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House...
...such a crisis the cabinet of that ineffectual Socialist, Pudgy Herman Müller lived for 21 months until last week. The saving crisis was the Young Plan of reparations. When it passed the Reichstag, when the crisis was over (TIME, March 24), the cabinet became a house of cards. "Poof!" went all the cabinet ministers last week. "Poof!" they voluntarily resigned. "Poof!" they gave the excuse of not being able to agree on the budget bill. "Poof!" fell the house of cards...
...suddenly, and in despite of the Socialist Government of German Prime Minister Hermann Müller, Dr. Schacht announced: first, that the Young Plan had been so tinkered that it is no longer the document he originally signed; second, that it would be "morally wrong" for the Reichsbank to associate itself with a plan so contrary to German interests, since it now sanctions France to act against the Fatherland in the event of German refusal to pay Reparations; and third, that Dr. Schacht, basing his stand as he said "on the highest moral grounds," would not as President...
...Parley (TIME, Aug. 19) as his personal endorsement of the Young Plan. Irate and august, President von Hindenburg reasserted his neutrality: "I declare herewith that I have given nobody authorization or cause to make known my personal opinion on this problem." To the old Feldmarschall went Chancellor Müller. He recalled that the President is in duty bound to promulgate such measures as the Reichstag's ratification of the Young Plan, pointed out that this act of promulgation might render even Paul von Hindenburg liable to be clapped into jail under the clause of the "Liberty Law" which...