Word: stresemanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Briand & Stresemann Grafters? Foulest charge hurled at M. Briand during his illness by a bitter opposition press was that he and his late, great German friend, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann were a pair of "colossal grafters...
...charge originated with one Dr. Diehl of Krefeld in Germany, a leader in Adolf Hitler's Fascist movement. Dr. Diehl charged that "international bankers" paid Dr. Stresemann $240,000 and M. Briand $720,000 "for putting the Young Plan across...
...counteract this tendency, to preserve the Republic from a dictatorship, that the new party has been formed. In its first proclamation it called itself the Staatspartei (Constitutional Party). Claiming the late great Gustav Stresemann as its patron saint, and two of Stresemann's biographers on the list of its organizers,* the Staatspartei "stands on the ground of the Federal Constitution and honors the national flag;" i.e. it is opposed to the restoration of the black, white, red, tricolor of Imperial Germany. All this is understandable and praiseworthy. What is surprising is the man who was chosen leader...
Closest friend of Frau Gustav Stresemann, widow of the late, great German Foreign Minister, is Frau Albert von Baligand. These two tolerably young, distinctively vivacious ladies ("Kate" and "Else") were recently the life of Berlin's staid, stodgy officialdom (a German Cabinet officer's wife is supposed to look like an unpainted, unpowdered laundress, and most do). Tongues wagged when, two years ago, Stresemann sent Dr. von Baligand, then director of the press bureau of the German Government, to Portugal as German Minister. It was thought that Diplomat von Baligand owed this spectacular promotion to his wife...
...Just before the last British election Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley were in Berlin, where they lavishly entertained the late, great Foreign Minister Stresemann and his vivacious wife. After talking with them, Frau Stresemann, who knows little (and does not claim to know anything) of British politics, confided to a German friend that she 'quite hoped" dear Lady Mosley's husband was going to be made Prime Minister then and there instead of plebian Mr. MacDonald...