Word: stresemann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many others of the mid-20th Century, came to its end in a courtroom. But its beginnings were more auspicious. It began, more or less, on that day in 1926 when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. Putting aside the enmities of World War I, Briand and Stresemann had signed at Locarno a mutual security pact...
Luchaire was well prepared as an advocate of French-German reconciliation. His father had served Briand at the League of Nations, his stepmother was Stresemann's secretary and biographer. Jean's wife waved the flag of rapprochement in her own way: she became Stresemann's mistress, took Jean's daughter Corinne to Germany with her. Little Corinne so charmed Stresemann's friend, Banker Kurt von Schroeder, that the rich old man took her into his home...
Criminality & Corruption. Jean Luchaire shared Abetz' feelings, helped him mightily. As "men of good will" under Briand and Stresemann, the two had failed to bind France and Germany together in peace and prosperity. In the Nazi era, they forged a lethal link between German criminality and French corruption...
...real meat of the poll, solemn re-educators of the Germans had to look farther down, where the republic's appeasing Gustav Stresemann, with 580 votes, just nosed out Adolf Hitler, who got 513. The Germans apparently did not think much of the U.S.'s greats. Washington and Lincoln barely won honorable mention, and the late President Roosevelt got only 109 votes-63 less than Stalin, and just enough to tie him for ninth place with France's 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu...
...became chairman of the Berlin section of Germany's new Communist Party. At 28 she was the party's loudest voice in the Reichstag. One correspondent described her thus: "She's a sneerer and a snarler. She sits on the far left of the house, interrupting Stresemann, Ludendorff and Tirpitz with cries of Phooy. She is fat ... and addresses the house with a vaudevillian shimmy that is unique...