Word: stresemann
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SNOWDEN, Briand and Stresemann were the "Big Three" at the first Hague Reparations Conference, with SNOWDEN towering in the news because of his unexpected, stubborn demand for a bigger slice of "reparations spongecake" (TIME...
...Best hater of Stresemann was Clemenceau. Last week Clemenceau was thumb-nailed by the only woman except his daughters to whom he left money (100,000 frs: $3,930), his stenographer, Mme. Pernoud...
...great man thus thumbnail-sketched was Gustav Stresemann who died of a form of apoplexy (TIME, Oct. 14). Thumbnailer: Viscount D'Abernon, patrician first Ambassador of Great Britain to the German Republic, writing in the January issue of Foreign Affairs, scholarly grey-bound U. S. quarterly. Of Stresemann and himself the Viscount writes: "For six years we were in almost daily intercourse. ... I believe that no two men in similar positions were ever more frank with one another or more free...
Later Lady Chamberlain went to Rome to discuss plans with the Premier, to get his official consent to remove the pictures. In Germanv she enlisted the aid of then Chancellor Stresemann, in Spain she talked with King Alfonso. Sir Joseph Duveen arranged for U. S. loans...
...lawyer by trade, like Stresemann, and one of his protegés in the moderate People's party, Dr. Curtius entered the German cabinet in 1926, served hand-in-glove with the great foreign minister until his death. Whilst Stresemann strove for peace by diplomacy, Curtius, as Minister of Economic Affairs, patched up the first post-War commercial treaty between France and Germany. He is a low tariff man, a quiet optimist, a vigorous advocate of more and still more loans from abroad, "loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt...