Word: stresemanns
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...With M. Briand again I had a most friendly conversation. I was able to give him an account of all that might be of interest to him of my meeting with Signer Mussolini. He gave me an account of what passed between him and Dr. Stresemann...
Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany slipped away from Geneva by motor one afternoon last week. Wily Foreign Minister Briand of France went for a boat ride, was met some miles from Geneva by Dr. Stresemann's motor. Chuckling at the success of their ruse to deceive newsgatherers, they were driven swiftly across the Swiss border to the tiny French mountain village of Thoiry. There they sought a snug inn famed for its cuisine, the Chalet Russe...
...Aristide Briand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, and Gustav Stresemann, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, had a conversation of several hours which was most cordial. In the course of this conversation they examined, one after another, all the problems which might interest the two countries ana they sought together the best means of assuring their solution in the interest of both France and Germany and the spirit of the treaties they then had signed...
Rumors naturally fled about that M. Briand and Herr Stresemann had been dickering over the complete evacuation of the Rhineland. Well plied with questions as to whether this was the case, M. Briand concealed his thoughts loquaciously...
...Government-inspired German news organs declared next day that Dr. Stresemann had offered to place half a billion gold marks' worth of German railways preferred stock at the disposal of the Allies on condition that M. Briand should obtain the following concessions: complete evacuation of all German territories occupied by the Allies; recovery by Germany of the Sarre Valley; and the acquisition by Germany of the Belgian districts, Eupen and Malmedy...