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...thanks to the League that tomorrow the French statesmen will be called to go to Germany and that there in conversations under the eyes of the peoples themselves one can lay the bases of collaboration which will be not merely words, but really practical and efficacious...
Abroad Secretary Stimson had a double mission: 1) to meet Europe's statesmen and learn their problems firsthand; 2) to sound them out on arms limitation at the Geneva conference next February. That he had participated in the London Conference was almost accidental. As he sailed for home, he figuratively lifted his hat to Europe in a statement of farewell...
...signs of such an agreement appeared. The statesmen saw the sights of Rome. They ate a great deal of food at a great many banquets. They had tea under the towering cypresses of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli. Carefully the statesmen avoided any talk of a political alliance, any mention of the repressed German-speaking minorities in the South Tyrol. Finally came news. Chancellor Brüning and Premier Mussolini made a trade agreement. Germany agreed to lift certain of her emergency restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency to allow Italy to market her surplus crop of oranges...
Germany let go of the bull's tail last week. Banks were allowed to reopen fully. German statesmen sighed with relief, for nothing much happened. Not only were there no runs, but for the first two or three days correspondents were proudly told that deposits were actually larger than withdrawals. German statesmen played their hand shrewdly. During the three weeks that Germany has been under partial moratorium the Government investigated every bank that seemed to be in serious trouble. Deposits of the closed Danat Bank were guaranteed. The Government bought 75%, of the stock of the great Dresdner Bank...
Plebiscite. It did not seem possible for hard-ridden Germany to avoid some sort of crisis for more than a few days. No sooner had the reopening of the banks passed off quietly than German statesmen were up to their necks on the problem of the Prussian plebiscite...