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Most significant and worth re-reading are the above sentences, when it is remembered that historians generally deem M. Poincaré an authentic pre-War apostle of revanche. By his own statement of last week he welcomed the War, once it had been begun, with an holy joy. Enemies are not lacking to charge that, as President of France (1913-1920), M. Poincaré schemed with Russia to precipitate the War...
...Prittwitz-Gaffron" (as he often calls himself) believes diplomacy should be based on economics and publicity. After two years in the U. S. (1908-1910) as an attache, he saw much of the pre-War diplomacy-of-deception at St. Petersburg and in the Berlin Foreign Of- fice. For a time, he was personal secretary to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg. He fought in the War, being badly wounded. Following Germany's Revolution, he helped found the Democratic Club in Berlin but did not leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome...
...After pre-war naturalism and the succeeding expressionism had disappeared, the young Germans found themselves without a unifying literary style. "Style is the result of a movement." Mr. Mann explained, "and in France the younger generation believed that search for a common goal was sufficient to create a movement, surrealism...
...twins pointed out that there have been three distinct differences in the last three generations in Germany. "The first group, composed of our fathers, had was the pre-war type of German. Then came the 'father-murderers' of the next generation who were the most revolutionary type. The world war broke into the most formative part of their lives; it stirred them up and made them more aggressive. It was they who created the revolution and invented expressionism...
...spectacle of the franc at a fifth of its pre-War value is as pitiful a sight as the War-maimed poilus one encounters in the streets! . . . Salvation lies in a new currency, in severing all ties with the past! Already Belgium, Austria, Hungary and Russia have struck new coins† .... The best reason for reviving the ecu is that it would stop our people from thinking in terms of francs and would abolish forever the present distressing comparison of salaries and prices with those of pre-War days. . . . The franc, even at par (19.3?) was a ridiculously small unit...