Word: stresemanns
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...late great Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of Germany, was a sober man. When he laughed it was news. Several years ago bullet-headed Herr Stresemann lunched with his good friend Aristide Briand in Geneva and at one remark of Brer Briand's gave vent to a laugh that rattled the champagne glasses. What was the story? Reporters have wondered for years. Last week Sir Austen Chamberlain told the press what M. Briand said he said to his friend Stresemann...
...Stresemann: Between friends, what is your opinion of War guilt...
...Stresemann: And what do you think history will...
Briand: My good friend Stresemann, I am not a prophet but I truly think there are two things history will not say; that this time, France was the aggressor, or that Belgium invaded Germany. (Hilarity from Herr Stresemann...
...manners were infinitely better than those of most newspaper photographers, because he interrupted nobody, bothered nobody, he was invited to public functions, allowed to snap his shutter openly. He has attended League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets...