Word: stresemann
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...German of the old Junker caste. It fitted exactly the known record and professed aims of this envoy whom German Nationalists viewed with alarm for his descent, whom German Conservatives thought too young for so important a post, but whom German Democrats endorsed entirely and whom Foreign Minister Stresemann sent over despite all opposition...
...Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, the "German Lloyd George," suffered a combined attack of influenza and kidney trouble which was expected to keep him from his desk at the Foreign Office for at least a month...
...During the week, President Coolidge, Premier Mussolini, Marshal Foch, General Pershing, Edward of Wales, Thomas A. Edison, Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany, Admiral Lord Beatty of Britain, and many another, appeared in the East Room of the White House and made speeches?in a special Movietone performance...
...founded upon a perhaps not unshakable rock ballast of coalition support, but the German Republic has long gone forward, irrespective of cabinet changes, under four perennial leaders: 1) Revered, monolithic President Paul von Hindenburg contributes to the State stability and prestige; 2) "The German Lloyd George," Dr. Gustav Stresemann, continues as Foreign Minister in cabinet after cabinet and negotiates ceaselessly among the former enemy powers from whom he has filched many a concession; 3) stern, able Defense Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than is Dr. Stresemann in his; he works tirelessly, commands imperiously...
However, it was reported that Dr. Stresemann complained of Austrian obstruction at Geneva. Particular dissatisfaction was voiced with Count Mensdorff-Pouilly, the Austrian League representative and Autro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Court of St. James's until the War. He, a distant relative of King George, was accused of being too pro-British and of having refused to accept the German viewpoint in several important issues. Dr. Stresemann plainly wanted to know if it were not possible for Austria and Germany to pull together in the League-no doubt with the idea of pushing the anschluss through, "when...