Word: stresemann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neighbors-including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague, Herr Hitler turned his back on his old "Blood and Soil" act and began talking about war ending with "only...
...most U. S. readers have followed current European history closely and anxiously. Not so familiar to them is the history of the period immediately before it-the sequence of post-War settlements, conferences, treaties that began when the Armistice was signed. Briand with his drooping lips and shaggy head, Stresemann with his dueling scars, Sir Austen Chamberlain with his monocle, his glassy stare and elegance of dress, are names in history books for high-school students, dim recollections for those students' parents...
...with reactions exactly opposite to those of the Führer. While Hitler toiled and finally succeeded in awakening German militarism to fresh and grandiose efforts, Ossietsky labored as the editor of the German pacifist Weltbühne. The late, great German Nobel Peaceman Dr. Gustav Stresemann said that without Ossietsky's preparatory work he should never have been able to carry out his policy of rapprochement with French Nobel Peace-man Aristide Briand...
...Carl von Ossietsky for the crime of editing articles which could be construed as divulging to the enemies of the Fatherland what was already an open secret known to all Europe-that Germany had from the start violated the Treaty of Versailles by clandestine rearmament, even under Chancellor Stresemann...
Whether or not Stresemann was a Judas to the cause of Peace, as has been suggested by some students of his diary and letters, Carl von Ossietsky never wavered, said "No!" to friends who had arranged for him to escape to Switzerland before he could be jailed. "If you wish to fight effectively against rottenness in a nation you must do it from the inside," said Ossietsky. "I will not flee abroad. A man speaks with but a hollow voice from across the border...