Word: rathenau
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...Wirth, himself of the Centre Party, sought a Reichstag majority by placing in his cabinet a large proportion of Socialists. But the Rathenau murder and the Bavarian revolt revealed a strong monarchistic reaction which enlisted the industrialists headed by Hugo Stinnes and which concealed itself under the name of Liberal or People's Party. Hence the Wirth cabinet had arrayed against it not only the avowed monarchical Conservatives but the powerfully influential industrialists of the People's Party...
...late Dr. Rathenau's statement last June: "We pull bodies of suicides out of the river and the canals of Berlin daily, but never one sufficiently clad", summarizes perfectly the material misery. But perhaps worse is the ever increasing moral dissolution. In addition to the impetus bodily misery always gives to moral delinquency, there is that national isolation of thought peculiar to a country which has no sound economic relations with the rest of the world. Germany today cannot afford any foreign newspapers, magazines or books; it can hardly afford to print its own. Such a situation directly affects...
...attitude. M. Poincare has insisted on omitting from the agenda any discussion of land armaments; this plainly nullifies much that might have been accomplished, for until European governments can find a way to limit their expenses to their incomes, economic rehabilitation is impossible. Nor is Germany over-enthusiastic; Rathenau's speeches have constantly been criticised--Der Tag, the industrial organ, for one, says: "What warrant has Herr Rathenau in assuming that the nations of the world, including the United States, are about to organize an economic entente? Where are the indications that America is contemplating increased interest in the sorrows...