Word: stresemanns
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Vienna was agog last week when the German Chancellor, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, arrived to return the official visit made a year ago to Berlin by the then Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Rudolph Ramek...
Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, delighted, informed Reichsprasident General-feldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg that the appointment of Dr. von Prittwitz might now be signed, and letters of credential to President Coolidge were forthwith made out officially naming him German Ambassador to succeed Baron Ago von Maltzan, recently killed in an airplane accident (TIME...
Talk. It was during a monotonous discussion of architect's plans for the building of a new home for the League. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand dozed, snored, awoke, fidgeted. Suddenly he sat upright, waved to German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to follow him outside. Both statesmen arose. M. Briand annoyed the earnest delegates by knocking over a chair and received their concentrated glare for his clumsiness...
...Briand, who speaks only French, led the conversation with the speed of an airplane beating a record. Dr. Stresemann, who understands both French and English, began listening intently, but as the Frenchman dashed on, his pallid face became a blank. Two League interpreters were sent...
...furiously on, spoke M. Briand. For half an hour he conversed at breakneck speed in a low tone. Dr. Stresemann, his face masked in passivity, sat grimly silent. M. Briand was alleged to have discussed with him European policy anent Soviet Russia, the question of War guilt and, according to the onlookers, Dr. Stresemann appeared to agree with everything the French foreign minister said, but held his counsel, except to agree for the time being to drop the question of who started the War. Busybodies were mystified...