Word: stresemann
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...Laval & Briand dined with Chancellor Brüning at the German Chancellery, lunched with Dr. Curtius, paid a morning visit to Old Paul von Hindenburg and, before returning to Paris, laid a wreath on the tomb of Brer Briand's old friend and fellow peace worker, Gustav Stresemann. Talk of M. Laval's impending visit to the U. S. (see p. 11), and of the possibility that Herr Brüning would go too. almost obscured the whole Franco-German gesture...
Germans en Route. Young Chancellor Brüning took with him to London his slightly older Foreign Minister, Dr. Julius Curtius, 54, a by no means brilliant successor to the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann...
...Curtius, the German Foreign Minister, negotiated with Austria a plan for a Zollverein (customs union) with Germany, in such heavy-handed fashion that everyone knew Anschluss (a political union) to be his object. France mortally hates & fears to see her former enemies unite. Had the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann remained German Foreign Minister, he would have been smart enough to keep Anschluss dark for a few more months, until after the French election. But Stresemann the First is dead, there is no second. German diplomacy is back to bungling. Too late many German papers fervently mourned Briand...
...late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann won his degree with a thesis on the development of the Berlin market in bottled beer...
Perhaps even the Great Man was taken in. Incredible as it may seem, Frau Stresemann went about telling her German friends confidentially (after the bummel) that there was a chance, a real chance that George V would call Sir Oswald to the prime ministry instead of Ramsay MacDonald...