Word: bierabends
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...were waiting to join the concert. Even such a cautious commentator as white-bearded Frederick T. Birchall, the New York Times Pulitzer prizewinner, announced that it was a "major event" in the Berlin season. There were plenty of speeches and after the concert thirsty bandsmen joined in a great Bierabend. Milwaukee's bandsmen downed stein for stein, many of them spoke German and 50% were of German descent...
...Gambrinus Bierabend." It was necessary for Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany to conciliate the German Nationalists if they were to agree to pay France what they described as "the bribe of Thoiry." Perhaps the cleverest diplomat in Europe, he participated at a farewell "bierabend" tendered him by the German colony at Geneva, before he returned from Thoiry to Berlin. Surrounded by convivial friends - devotees of Gambrinus, the legendary inventor of beer-Gustav Stresemann purposely became "indiscreet." ; He "talked a bit." He exulted at the forthcoming liberation of the Rhineland. He cried that the stain of War guilt had been wiped...
...Sunday Speech." If Germany has been wiped clean of War guilt, what states are War guilty? French Nationalists saw in the "bierabend speech" of Herr Stresemann an implied casting of War guilt on France. Moreover Premier Poincare himself has been accused of being the chief author of the World War by revisionist historians. Would he stomach "Gambrinus" Stresemann's indiscretions? When M. Poincare announced that he would make one of his famed "Sunday speeches" at Bar-le-Duc, French Nationalist newsgatherers scurried thither, prepared to hear him tear the compromise of Thoiry to tatters...
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