Word: stresemann
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...stone high above Italian Lake Maggiore about a mile from the Villa of Locarno, Switzerland, that Germany's Stresemann talked momentously with France's Briand...
...Heard Senator King eulogize late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann...
...Briand, typifies the cartoonist's Frenchman. Yet Gustav Stresemann was the first German to be entertained officially in France for 59 years. Said the semi-official Temps last week...
...Gustav Stresemann was born in Berlin in 1878, the son of a beer merchant. Father Stresemann had higher plans for young Gustav than the beer business. Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag...
...early years in the Reichstag Stresemann was quite the blustering Junker that he looked. He spoke loud and long for Germany's need for territorial expansion, he obediently voted every increase in Germany's Imperial army. Throughout the War he was one of the Kaiser's most devoted followers, defending indiscriminate submarine warfare against the attacks of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. With the Armistice and the disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation...