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...democratically led, dedicated by its electorate to a United Europe as well as to a new Germany. "We never question Adenauer's sincerity when he talks of Franco-German agreement," said a top French diplomat. "He is truly European . . . But we don't forget another German, Stresemann, who wanted good relations with France. Six months after he died [1929], what happened? His party and policy collapsed...
...Wells: Prophet of Our Day appears four years after his death in 1946. Poland-born Antonina Vallentin, a naturalized Frenchwoman, has two qualifications for the job: 1) she knew Wells, 2) she is practiced in writing books about famous men (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, Heinrich Heine, Gustav Stresemann, Mirabeau, Goya). With H. G. Wells, she comes to grips with her first eccentric Briton-and emerges from the struggle wearing the pained, puzzled expression of a fighter who has been repeatedly but deftly rabbit-punched...
...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...