Word: stresemanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming by a few intimations that what Europe needs is a return to "the Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic...
...Chancellor Hitler ordered a State funeral at the Republic's expense (a supreme honor previously accorded by the Republic only to President Friedrich Ebert and Dr. Gustav Stresemann) to be held last week for one Joseph Zauritz, policeman, and one Eberhard Maikovsky, "Fascist Martyr," both of whom had been murdered since Hitler was made Chancellor...
...American Line; of heart attack from overwork; in Hamburg, where he was Rotary Club president. As German Chancellor for nine months (1922-23) Dr. Cuno deliberately inflated the mark in an effort to force a Reparations moratorium from the Allies. Succeeded as Chancellor by the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Dr. Cuno rebuilt the Hamburg-American Line (stripped by the Allies down to 4.000 tons in 1918) up to its present 1.087,175 tons...
...years not primarily by the Reichstag but by Presidential decrees drafted and administered by Herr von Hindenburg's hand-picked protégé, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. He, a pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working bachelor soon won greater world esteem than any German diplomat since the late, great Dr. Stresemann. Throughout Germany last week the President's abrupt act in kicking his protege back into obscurity produced an impression never before associated with the name of HINDENBURG?symbol of Loyalty and Duty...
Only the wealth and family prestige of Baron von Neurath have enabled him as Ambassador at Rome and lately at London to hold his diplomatic post while snubbing or cutting direct visiting German Republicans. Dr. Stresemann, who placed Franco-German relations on friendly terms for the first time since the War, may well have turned in his grave at the appointment of Baron von Neurath as his successor. On the other hand Chancellor von Papen may decide to head the German delegation himself. Paradoxically, the Chancellor is rumored, as a man of business and trade, to have notably friendly relations...