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Germans were tardy about scotching Wall Street's scare. The Reichsbank in President Hans Luther's own good time denied officially that the mark would go off gold. Followed an official Foreign Office denial and at the Chancellery it was said that Dr. Brüning, far from handing the Government over to Herr Hitler, planned to attend the World Disarmament Conference next February as Chancellor...
...vacuum tubes carrying as high as 650,000 volts. But the production of such voltages is expensive. 'The significance of Dr. Van de Graaff's purchase at the 5f/ & 10^ store ribbon counter was that he had discovered how to produce a current of electricity with light-ning-like force at a cost (for a small 1,500,000-volt machine...
...public functions, allowed to snap his shutter openly. He has attended League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets, King of the Indiscreet...
...ballots. But voters have a habit of fooling dopesters. Example: the last German election was called in hopes of obtaining a stable Government majority, resulted in the Hitler landslide and no stable majority (TIME, Sept. 22), thus causing President von Hindenburg to decree the Brüning Dictatorship...
...Minister Aristide Briand to Berlin-first official German visit of any French statesmen since French Foreign Minister William Henry Waddington * led a French delegation to the Congress of Berlin in 1878-produced but one concrete result last week: It proved that the Government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is powerful enough to provide an enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives lustily cheered Herren Laval & Briand. Statesmen Laval...