Word: stresemanns
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Toward the League. Foreign Minister Stresemann made good use of the kindly feelings engendered in German hearts by the evacuation of Cologne. While the Rhineland celebration was still at its height, Herr Stresemann publicly announced that but for the Locarno Pacts the Allies would have delayed still longer before evacuating Cologne. Ergo, it behooved Germany to hurry up and enter the League of Nations as provided in the Locarno treaties (TIME, Nov. 2). Next day the astute Herr Stresemann convoked the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag, demanded and received its authority to apply unconditionally to the League for Germany...
With this sanction in his pocket, Herr Stresemann considered the German application so nearly an accomplished fact that he telegraphed the German Ambassador at Paris to inform Premier Briand that Germany would actually apply to the League within three days. Late despatches reported that the Premiers of the Federated States of the German Republic were en route to Berlin, there to indorse formally the German application, the actual text of which was to be drawn up at a Cabinet Council presided over by President Hindenburg...
Weak. The Chancellor began by reading a vague and general ministerial declaration, which had been made so noncommital that it did not even pledge the Cabinet to take steps for Germany's entrance into the League of Nations, although Dr. Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann are personally pledged to such a policy by their action in putting through the Locarno Pacts, which specifically require that Germany shall enter the League (TIME...
...defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment to announce that he had obtained a few minor concessions from the Allies respecting the evacuation of the Rhineland. The effect was electrical and cleared the air for the Government considerably...
That such an apparently hopeless three-cornered deadlock is considered "tolerably workable," arises from the fact that the Socialists have long followed the policy of "benevolent abstention from voting" which last December allowed the Luther-Stresemann minority Government to carry through the Locarno negotiations despite the opposition of the Right...