Word: streseman
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There is reason therefore to watch the informal meetings of French Foreign Minister Briand with Chancellor Streseman; and all the more reason because these meetings have been succeeded by equally surprising meetings between Mussolini and Austen Chamberlain. No one will yet whisper a word; but watchers will stare long at the graphic possibility,--England and Italy grouped, France and Germany joined...
Foreign Minister Streseman will demand further "clarification of entrance requirements," but it is practically certain his country will eventually join...
Chancellor Marx's original plan was to unite the three bourgeois parties--Streseman's People's Party, Catholic Centrists, and Democrats--leaving the irreconcilable Nationalists and the Socialists on the right and left wings. Finding that no effective majority could thus be established in the Reichstag, Dr. Marx made overtures to the Nationalists. They refused, and the Democrats, affronted at the prospect of cooperating with the Nationalists, withdrew from the coalition. The continuance of the Cabinet became impossible, and at Chancellor Marx's request President Ebert is about to call a new election...
...kings into puppets for the manipulation of plebian statesmen. King George of Greece has been requested to take a vacation for two months while the people of Greece decide a few matters; the Crown Prince has taken a trip from Holland to Silesia, said to be instigated by Chancellor Streseman in order to split the Monarchist party; and Mirabile dictu, the discarded Kaiser is reported on the verge of a return to the Fatherland. Although the Kaiser has lost every vestige of authority, Europeans are showing an increasing tendency to intrust their causes to a leader extraordinary which may give...