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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important French fort, was promoted to the staff of the then Commander-in-Chief of the German Offensive, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, and received from the Imperial hand itself the Iron Cross. Quiet Dr. Curtius, who looks even more like a U. S. businessman than M. Tardieu, is the first soldier to be appointed Foreign Minister of the German Republic...
Issue of Sanctions. The first thing that Curtius and Tardieu did at The Hague-once the conference had been formally opened by Prime Minister Henri Jaspar of Belgium-was to get together for a long secret conference at the Hotel des Indes where they were rumored to have exchanged high words...
Both were agreed on the general principle that the great powers must now ratify once and for all the Owen D. Young Plan, which fixes for the first time the total which Germany owes in reparations and lays down the complete scale of payments for 58 years. So far so good. But deputies of the French Parliament have been asking M. Tardieu: "What guarantee has France that Germany will make these payments? What punishment awaits Germany if she decides...
...German position, which Dr. Curtius undoubtedly urged upon M. Tardieu last week, is: First that no punishment is provided for France if she decides to welch on her debts to Britain and the U. S.; second that Washington has within the past fortnight signed a separate financial agreement with Berlin in which there is not one word about "sanctions" covering payment by the Fatherland of the cost of U. S. occupation of part of Germany after the war; finally that Germany expects the Allies and particularly M. Tardieu to follow the lead of President Hoover in taking the word...
...When the first Hague Conference met it was assumed by all that this could be done, and France displayed far less anxiety about that than she did last week about whether Germany might default. But the Wall Street crash has raised doubts as to whether U. S. investors can be depended on to hold the German bag-full or empty as the future will reveal. Last week lean, jocular Melvin Alvah Traylor, President of The First National Bank of Chicago, and quiet, thickset Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of First National Bank of New York, were on the Atlantic en route...