Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protegés in the moderate People's party, Dr. Curtius entered the German cabinet in 1926, served hand-in-glove with the great foreign minister until his death. Whilst Stresemann strove for peace by diplomacy, Curtius, as Minister of Economic Affairs, patched up the first post-War commercial treaty between France and Germany. He is a low tariff man, a quiet optimist, a vigorous advocate of more and still more loans from abroad, "loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt." As a "borrowing man" he enjoys the thoroughgoing contempt...
Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling quickstep, troops tramped off to the station...
...General Hans von Seeckt, organizer and first commander of the German Reichswehr?post-War military machine. He resigned at the request of Allied military observers in 1926. Official reason: for allowing a Hohenzollern prince to take part in German Army maneuvers...
Though unquestionably guilty, the nice old gentleman has so many potent friends in Spain that all through the spring, summer and fall he lived luxuriously in the officers' quarters of a Spanish battleship anchored off Valencia. He has just been acquitted by the supreme war tribunal before which he resolutely professed his guilt...
Shortly before the War he set his aide, the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, a problem in tactics. The Archduke scratched his Habsburg head and wrote out a solution. Unser Anton perused the paper and observed respectfully...