Word: stresemanns
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German leaders tried hard to find a successor last week. At Schorfheide, his Bavarian shooting lodge, grizzled old President von Hindenburg quietly celebrated his 82nd birthday. An aide brought news of Stresemann's death. President von Hindenburg rushed back to Berlin. Preceding him was a telegram...
...NEWS OF DR. STRESEMANN'S DEATH HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE THE HELM AND ACTIVE LEADERSHIP IN THE NATION TO AVOID CRISIS...
Hastily appointed temporary Foreign Minister was Dr. Stresemann's most faithful follower in the People's Party, Dr. Julius Curtius...
...night, members of the Foreign Office stood around the catafalque, raised high above the speaker's tribune in the Reichstag, as rigidly motionless as the great dreary candles. Near was a very showy wreath blazoned with a crown and W from onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Next day Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding...
Died. Gustav Stresemann, German Foreign Minister; .at Berlin; of thrombosis...