Word: stresemanns
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...Berlin, last week, the Tagliche Rundschau, which often speaks for Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, thundered: ". . . Unpardonable distortion of the circumstances of Fraulein Cavell's death. . . . Let us hope that the British Government will find a way to suppress the film...
...most brutally frank and clarifying discussion of the continued French occupation of part of the German Rhineland* took place, last week, at long range, between Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, addressing the Reichstag in smashing style, and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, replying still more vigorously before Le Sénat, in Paris...
...happen, the meaning of both august orators appeared most clearly and concisely from their actual words. So vociferously was each statesman cheered by his own parliamentary audience, without regard to party, that it could be truly said: "The people of Germany are debating with the people of France." Excerpts: Stresemann: "Before all else we Germans demand the evacuation of the Rhineland. . . . The Locarno agreement assures peace between Germany and France. Both nations obligate themselves through this agreement to forego all aggressive action against each other. Whosoever asks for more security than that doubts the pledged word and the signed treaty...
...England together with France, to fight Germany's present-day army? "It is illogical to have a Locarno treaty and at the same time see the Rhineland occupied. The Locarno agreement was meant to be the beginning, not the end, of the new era of conciliation." Briand (apostrophizing Stresemann with blazing frankness): "Locarno gives us all the security on the Rhine we need, but ... if you Germans want us out [of the Rhineland] sooner than 1935 you will hurry along with the commercialization of your reparation debt and the fulfillment of all disarmament conditions, then we will be only...
That the precipitation of events will be discreet and orderly was to be inferred from the fact that Dr. Stresemann an nounced, last week, his intention of going immediately to Cannes, French Riviera, "on a long vacation to restore my health." Although the good Herr Doktor has undoubtedly suffered from influenza of late (TIME, Jan. 30), he is apt to negotiate as well as recuperate in France...