Word: rathenau
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...Strangely enough, there was German sympathy for it too. Dr. Rathenau, who is now dead but who was held in the highest esteem both in Germany and in Allied nations, said in conversing with me that the creation of such a state was conceivable if France proceeded in a conciliatory fashion. The laborers in the Rhineland district at that time did not feel much sympathy for the central government, according to Rathenau, and particularly wished to avoid much of the reparations of a war which as a district the Rhineland did not sponsor...
...Wiesbaden, October, 1921: Agreement made between Rathenau and Loucheur concerning payment of reparation in kind...
...Wilhelm: Rathenau says of him: " He was weakness which could not do without support." His father says: " His general culture is full of gaps and he lacks genuine depths. This lack of maturity and this inexperience in my son, combined with his tendency toward exaggeration, make me feel that it would be dangerous to allow him to concern himself, at present, in foreign affairs." Bismarck remarks: " He is a man who would like to have a birthday every day, or solemn processions, or receptions, or parades, and, in his haughtiness, the role of the world's arbiter would...
Felix Deutsch, successor to Walter Rathenau (former German Foreign Minister, assassinated June 24, 1922) as head of the Deutscheallgemeine- elektrizischegesellschaft, the greatest European electrotechnical concern, controlling coal and iron, and of the largest railway equipment trust in Europe...
...campaign was due entirely to patriotism for England. In France, Judaism has almost disappeared, but a sharp contrast to this is to be found in Germany and German Austria. There, there is a wave of anti-Semitic feeling which has found expression in the murder of such men as Rathenau...