Word: stresemanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manners were infinitely better than those of most newspaper photographers, because he interrupted nobody, bothered nobody, he was invited to public functions, allowed to snap his shutter openly. He has attended League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets...
...Laval & Briand dined with Chancellor Brüning at the German Chancellery, lunched with Dr. Curtius, paid a morning visit to Old Paul von Hindenburg and, before returning to Paris, laid a wreath on the tomb of Brer Briand's old friend and fellow peace worker, Gustav Stresemann. Talk of M. Laval's impending visit to the U. S. (see p. 11), and of the possibility that Herr Brüning would go too. almost obscured the whole Franco-German gesture...
Germans en Route. Young Chancellor Brüning took with him to London his slightly older Foreign Minister, Dr. Julius Curtius, 54, a by no means brilliant successor to the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann...
...Curtius, the German Foreign Minister, negotiated with Austria a plan for a Zollverein (customs union) with Germany, in such heavy-handed fashion that everyone knew Anschluss (a political union) to be his object. France mortally hates & fears to see her former enemies unite. Had the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann remained German Foreign Minister, he would have been smart enough to keep Anschluss dark for a few more months, until after the French election. But Stresemann the First is dead, there is no second. German diplomacy is back to bungling. Too late many German papers fervently mourned Briand...
...late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann won his degree with a thesis on the development of the Berlin market in bottled beer...