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Ambassadors and Ministers accredited at Berlin received, last week, an aide memoire from the Foreign Office, reminding them that Germany's greatest statesman Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, "can no longer accept evening invitations...
Presumably this circular reminder meant that some Ambassadors or Ministers have recently been so obtuse as to bid plump and pudgy Dr. Stresemann to their 9 o'clock banquets, forgetting entirely that his once bibulous and night-owlish habits have completely altered since he barely escaped Death (TIME, May 28) from a prolonged and acute kidney attack...
Again paraphrasing President Coolidge, though in more vigorous language, Dr. Stresemann added: "It is cheap to sneer at the Kellogg Pact renouncing war. The Kellogg pact is what the governments and peoples themselves will make of it. I do not doubt that history will see in it an important advance toward better international relations...
Finally the traditional desire of Republican Germany for general Limitation of Armaments was voiced by Dr. Stresemann. who said with a wry smile: "That is not only my policy, but must be the policy of every German Government. It is the only possible policy for a nation which the Powers have disarmed...
Reparations. The principle on which the U. S. has made debt settlements with France and Italy-"capacity to pay"-was urged by smart Gustav Stresemann as the principle which must guide the new Reparations Revision Commission (TIME...