Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subsequent despatches gravely reported: "The Prince of Wales is much perturbed over the loss of a highly treasured inkstand which he used constantly aboard the Repulse." Queried many: How lest? Did he throw it, when annoyed, like Prince Bismarck?* Like George Washington?† Like Martin Luther...
...Luther, "Stresemann, "Emile Vandervelde, "A. Briand, "Austen Chamberlain, "Benito Mussolini...
Under the chairmanship of President von Hindenburg the Cabinet of the Reich, in full plenary session, recorded unanimously last week its complete concurrence with the procedure of Herr Stresemann and Dr. Luther in initialing the Locarno treaties (see INTERNATIONAL). Immediately thereafter the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag indicated that no opposition to the treaties need bo feared from the Central or Socialist parties, since Herr Stresemann had declared before it: "The Rhineland treaty contains nothing but renunciation of all aggressive attacks . . . and does not interfere with the self-determination of peoples or with any other kind of peaceful development...
...Nationalist members of the Cabinet (three of them) interpreted this resolution as a party command to resign and forthwith presented their resignations to Chancellor Luther. It was felt that this development would inevitably lead to serious delays in ratifying the treaties. The Monarchist press was headlining: "The Pact is dead...
...second floor of the Palais flew up, and the chief foreign ministers of Europe announced that they had just initialed the Rhine pact and a sheaf of arbitration treaties! While candles all but showered the distinguished statesmen with sparks, Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France, and Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany, beamed out upon the multitude, with the consciousness that seven years after the World War their countries had at last joined as equals in an accord for peace...