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HERR STRESEMANN'S CAREER.

HIS

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THE MAN, AND

[FROM "TON TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.] BERLIN, Augusë 13thi

in his career to give colour to the accusa- tion that it has become a legend. But those who have observed him in more recent time are inclined, to the opinion that he has lately acquired deeper and more permanent views and is lens swayed bự thỏ attractive course than he used to

be

A PARLIAMENTARIAN.

· Dr. Gustav "Stresemann has long been

It wold be useless and unkind to a candidate for the office of Chanceller, though it is more than doubtful whether survey his chances of success in this, the ho ever imagined himself Recepting it in last attempt to govern Germany by Par such difficult circumstances. His made by a sincere believer in Parliament- liamentarianism It is at least being decessor disappears after reducing the fabric of the State almost to ruins, andvernment on the English model. has bequeathed him as heavy a task as The new Chancellor will not lack good ever Chancellor had to face, oven in the wishes in the task he has undertaken. list stages of the war, To solve the prob. thigh whether they will i transformed lens of the Ruhr, of reparations, of State into physical support when the struggle insolvency, and of an impossible currohemes must renin to be seen. at a period of heightened social unrest must require qualities of a very high

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Dr. Stresemann was born on May, 10th, 18 in Berlin. He studied history and political economy at the Universities at Berlin and Leipzig, nid devoted the next The sack certainly calls for optimis, few years of his life to organizing indus aid that, fortunately, is Dr. Stresemann's try. He founded the Union of Saxon chief characteristic. His outlook is lustrialists and was for tuany years its governed by the thing ahead, his efforts secretary. He becaine associated with the manifestly always at full strength to National Liberal Party, and was firat. attain it. The reflective aspect of politics returned to the Reichstag in 1907. With has never appeared to have any attraction a brief interval, 1D13-11, his Parliament. for him, and he shows little inclination) argueareer has been unbroken. Da the to be guided by the past. Au almost death of Bassertunan. în 1017 he breame ruthless Brang can be seen running leader of the party. During the war he through his policy as that of a man who, pursued strong nunexationist aims. and. marching forward when these hopes had fallen to the over the graves."*"

ground after the defeat and collapse of Already some wonder is expressed in the German armies and the cutbreak of many quarters that a man can be found the Revolution, he resisted the tempta- to take on a task which bears in itself tion to go over with his party to the every promise of defeat, all the elements Democrats, and so the German "People's of personal danger, and ne great rewards! Party came into being. Under his leader. for success. Ambition may have carried ship it has become perhaps the most seri- Dr. Stremann to the threshold of the us force in German political life, largely Chancellorship, but it must in his case by its ausdeiation with the great indus have nerded considerable courage to eros, trialists. In ute years his personality it. He had not reached his present einio has had the effect of somewhat dividing ence in political affairs at the bittercet it, so that there is now a time in their history without making Stinnes, wing, and a left, or Stresemann. ehemi Ho has them in both extreme wing. In the present crisis, however, the camps, among the irreconcilables of the traderey seems towards cohesion. Nationalists and the Communists. The fermer not long ago began openly to threaten him with the fate of Erzberger if he should further lend his influence to: They a settlement by understandings.

did not inflarace him dge hair's breadth. The Communists are threatening him to. day, but their threats have not affected! his prospective programme.

A «READY WIT.

Of other useful qualities the few Chan. cellor brings with him to smooth the rough path of his new office there may mentioned originality, clarity, and energy. It might be expected that one who was so little inclined to be influenced by tradition must set up and justify some ather standardi. Originality has always

right. or

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Sir Thomas Lipton, who left Liverpool for New Pork on August 11th, on the White Star liner fedele, nanousedd "that' be had definitely decided to make a chal- go for the America Cup in 1926. "1t inity that the cup should remain in America now that they have nothing to fill it with," he added. The yacht Sir Thomas proposes to sail in the 125 race is to be built in Gt. Britain; but the question of “ its design is still under consideration.

This will be his fifth

Hicked fairly Ireon. been the distinctive feature of Dr. Strese cup. "I have always fapt to win the) mann's career. In his early days, when and squarely," said Sir Thomase and the he went campaigning for the National Americans hare treated me well." Sir Liberal Party in Saxony, he nearly Thomas has gone to New York to see that Hoererything is ready for the return of the wrecked his chances at the outset.

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suid he would step out of the pattern," Shamrock with which he intends to com- as the older members of the party compete in the home regattas next year.

plained. His readiness of wit in public meetings. bis quickness to seize a new idea, and even to commit his party to it, were then rangs and intolerable to Ger- man politics, They are strange today, hans few German politicians have the elasticity to embrace the. but they are tot unto'erated-many speakers envy Dr. Stresemann. his readiness of ratort,

The verbal rapier » not a weapon suit- abh to the heavy German temperament, but when it comes to an exchange of wits Dr. Stresemann wields" a very lively Schläger, as his opponents' have good rrasa tu know. He is one of the few speakers who can really hold the Reich- stng. as Mr. Winston Churchill-the com- parison is inevitable-can hold the Hous of Commons, Were there more like him

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