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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: 1,063 Weeks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Natural Death | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Natural Death | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Natural Death | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...MIRROR TO GENEVA - George Slocombe-Holt ($3). Expert characterizations of such League of Nations heroes as Briand, Stresemann, Eden, written with the polite air of a chairman introducing the speakers of the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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