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...congratulating Dr. Curtius, I cannot help but marvel at his children's unusually fast growth. My probable reason for noticing this error (if error it be) is that I was very much amused at your first description of family man Curtius and his bachelor friend. Brüning. Though a "bungler" and lacking genius, you must admit that Husband Curtius is no ordinary man, according to the above statements...
Pale, lantern-jawed Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, plump German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, and millions of swarming grasshoppers descended upon Rome last week. In the Campagna frightened peasants set fire to their fields as black clouds of the insects dropped from the sky, ate wheatfields to the dust and vineyards bare to the stalks, then hopped and whirred away. Gardens were ruined in the city. Streets, roofs and windows were gummy with grasshopper bodies and their brown "tobacco juice...
...other Germans to share his happiness. For a fortnight the German Government had been in the position of a man with a wild bull by the tail. So far they were safe, but every thought was for that moment when they would have to let go. The Brüning Cabinet still had the bull by the tail last week. They took a firmer grip...
...ning Cabinet had another of their interminable series of emergency meetings. By President von Hindenburg's original decree, German banks must reopen fully for business this week. That would be releasing the bull's tail with a vengeance. A new decree was placed on Old Paul's desk, and promptly signed, continuing the partial closure of the banks indefinitely. Foreign exchange can be bought only through the Reichsbank. Penalties for violating the new banking laws include confiscation of property and ten-year jail sentences...
...that was what Statesman Stimson found he said nothing about it. He arrived at Berlin, called on Old Paul von Hindenburg, on Chancellor Brüning, on Foreign Minister Curtius, was solemnly taken to see the Greek sculpture in the Pergamon Museum and lunched on venison and Moselle in a public restaurant on the Wannsee (Tub Lake). Then he departed by Hook of Holland for London, passing en route Ramsay MacDonald and "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on their way to go through much the same performance...