‘Castaway, The’
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‘Castaway, The’, a poem by
Cowper, written 1799, published 1803. It is based on an incident from
Anson's Voyage Round the World. Cowper depicts with tragic power the suffering of a seaman swept overboard and awaiting death by drowning.
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Gustav Stresemann. Weimar's Greatest Statesman
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Wright, Jonathan. Gustav Stresemann. Weimar's Greatest Statesman...subject. Wright believes that Stresemann's conversion from the annexationist...for this thesis. It shows that Stresemann, from humble background, had...
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Could he have saved Weimar? German history.('Gustav Stresemann: Weimar Politician and Statesman')
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/14/2002; 700+ words
; ...s great might-have-beens GUSTAV STRESEMANN, Germany's foreign minister...contribution to our understanding of Stresemann and of German foreign-policy interests in the 20th century. Gustav Stresemann: Weimar Politician and Statesman...
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Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's greatest statesman: Jonathan Wright looks at the career of the statesman who might have steered Germany safely through the Weimar era.
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; GUSTAV STRESEMANN BECAME Chancellor of Germany in August...the army wavering in its loyalty and Stresemann's own party far from united behind...crusade of the League powers against it, Stresemann also concluded the Treaty of Berlin...
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Wright, Jonathan Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...person who held this republic together, more than anyone else, at least until his death in 1929, was Gustav Stresemann. Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman is a political biography written very much for specialists. Beautifully...
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Gustav Stresemann.
Magazine article from: The Atlantic; 3/1/2003; 635 words
; GUSTAV STRESEMANN, by Jonathan Wright (Oxford). Wright, an Oxford don, has written...biography in English of one of Germany's three greatest diplomats. Gustav Stresemann, the Weimar Republic's Foreign Minister from 1923 to 1929, often...
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GUSTAV STRESEMANN
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/18/1994; ; 156 words
; ...Jerusalem Post 11-18-1994 Referring to Susan Hattis Rolef's review of Kissinger: A Biography (October 28), Gustav Stresemann was German chancellor in 1923, but from 1923 to 1929 he was foreign minister, not chancellor, as stated in the...
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Hitler, Stresemann and the Discontinuity of German Foreign Policy.
Magazine article from: History Review; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...This withdrawal was the final achievement of Gustav Stresemann, the strong man of the Weimar Republic...ideology that motivated Hitler's conduct. Stresemann: Early Career Gustav Stresemann was born in 1879. As quite a young man during...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1929: Stresemann's Legacy
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/13/2004; 290 words
; ...in German history was closed with the death of Dr. Gustav Stresemann. Although he filled a prominent role on the stage...factor in American history for only six years. When Stresemann assumed the Chancellorship on that fateful day of...
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The man who might have stopped Hilter
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 11/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; GUSTAV STRESEMANN: WEIMAR'S GREATEST STATESMAN by...0198219490 When war broke out in 1914 Stresemann accused Britain of forging an alliance...Calais into a `German Gibraltar'. Stresemann supported his country's resort in...
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The UFA Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918-1945
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Ludendorff in 1917, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann was convinced ten years later that...Kreimeier mentions Foreign Minister Stresemann four times, but never the fact that it was Stresemann who played a key role in pressing the...
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Gustav Stresemann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gustav Stresemann Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) was one of Germany's outstanding diplomats and a leading political figure of the post-World War I Weimar Republic. He championed a policy of postwar reconciliation and cooperation in Europe...
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Stresemann, Gustav
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Stresemann, Gustav (1878–1929) German statesman. Stresemann was the outstanding politician of the Weimar Republic...disadvantageous terms imposed by the Treaty of Versailles . Stresemann negotiated Germany's entry into the League of...
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Hans Luther
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hans Luther , 1879-1962, German statesman. As Gustav Stresemann 's minister of finance he aided Hjalmar Schacht in...center-right coalition cabinets (1925-26). With Stresemann as his foreign minister, he negotiated the Locarno...
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Locarno Pact
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The request of Gustav Stresemann for a mutual guarantee of the Rhineland met with the...Aristide Briand ; under the leadership of Briand, Stresemann, and Austen Chamberlain , a series of treaties of...
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Aristide Briand
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Locarno Pact (1925) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), and he shared the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize with Gustav Stresemann. An impressive orator, Briand was a prominent figure in the League of Nations. He advocated a plan for a United...
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