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Died. Dr. Julius Curtius, 71, onetime Foreign Minister (1929-31) of Germany's Weimar Republic, who negotiated the Allied evacuation of the Rhineland in 1929; of arteriosclerosis; in Heidelberg, Germany...
...marche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very serious ones, like Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland...
...worst run of the four. "The French have cut more wood in two years than the Germans cut in 50," said a German forester. A businessman in Coblenz told me: "The French had a wonderful opportunity here. We had had our noses full of Hitler. They wanted the Rhineland, and we wanted something different from what we had. They could have won us. But their tactics have lost us completely...
Schwarzschild's indictment is most effective when describing Marx's personal and political life from 1818 to 1883. Here is Marx the boy taken to a church in Trier, in the recently Prussianized Rhineland, and baptized a Lutheran. His father, the first lawyer in an interminable line of distinguished rabbis, admired Prussia and its official religion. Here is Marx the future socialist, unsocially shunning his school fellows while his mental acrobatics charm Ludwig von Westphalen, a much older man of a much higher social position. Marx later repaid Westphalen for this early interest by marrying his daughter, Jenny...
With the first gunshots, Marx rushed back to the Rhineland to edit the New Rhenish Gazette. The chapter on this episode shows the extent to which Marx's tactics are still standard Communist equipment. The New Rhenish Gazette was a tight little dictatorship of the proletariat run by a back-room clique of case-hardened Communists. But communism or socialism were rarely mentioned in its columns ; the paper posed as a liberal organ. The Communists posed as liberal patriots. In the name of liberalism, Marx shouted for war between Prussia and Denmark. He knew that war is good growing...