Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03
STRESEMANN DIES
SUDDENLYA HOME
Leading German Statesman
Victim of Heart Attack
and Paralysis.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN, October 3.-Dr. Gustav
etresemsnn. German foreign minister
and the Reich's greatest postwar
statesman. died at 5:25 am. today OF q
heart attack which followed paralytic
stroke at 10 O'Clock last night.
He was 81 years old and had been IN
I'll health for many months. Frau
Stresemann and his two sons we're at
his bedside.
For several days recently he was con-
flned to his bed with his old catarrhal
trouble, but he got UP yesterday to par
ticipate in the Reichstag debate on is
suance OF industrial insurance, po-
itical issue which threatened collapse
of the coalition government which he
personally held together.
Strained by Debate.
His physicians believed the strain of
bitter debate IN the Reichstag during
the day weakened his system. During
the last few months his most vigorous
nights In the Reichstag nearly always
DR.. Stresemann was regarded as the
backbone of the German cabinet. head
ed by DR.. Mueller. and many did not
see how the coalition could hold to-
Rether without him.
Political circles considered whether
his death would mark material change
in Germany's foreign policy. which.
since his aScendancy. has been one Of
cooperation with the League OF Ma
tions and reconciliation with Germany s
OLD enemies, with honorable meeting OF
the countryS Versailles treaty oohga-
tionS its corner stone.
His death came. too. at an awkward
moment in the Reich's affairs, when
ratification of the Young reparations
plan seemed certain to muster consider
able opposition. 1t remains to be seen
whether the loss Of DR.. StreSemann as
leader of the move for ratification will
alter the status OF the reDarations ar
rangements worked out arduously at
Paris and The Hague
Maintains Cabinet.
Had it not been for DR.. StreSemann'S
efforts during the last few days tn"
Mueller government might not have
been able to survive bitter wrangling on
the industrial insurance question.
His Peoples party was in direct op-
position to other government parties.
and 1t had required all OF his skill to
avert a clash which would have spelled
4 government crisis.
Even after he went home last eve
ming he was not able to rest, but spent
hours telephoning.
DR.. StreSemanns efforts at The
Hague conference on reparations and
at Geneva during the last session OF the
Assembly of the League OF Nations told
heavily on his health and the CORE
spondents we're shocked last Friday at
a press conference to see him but
shadow of his former self.
He looked pale and thin, with his
sunken cheeks deathly white. He
laughed however. and said 1t was
nothing and that he would be feeling
we'll again soon.
DR.. Stresemann rose from an obscure
deputyship in the days before the war
to become chancellor twice and foreign
minister five times in German cabinets
He was in favor of limited monarchy
At first after the war. but as early as
1926 he declared he was willing to pro-
tect the republic with his own body.
1t was ne who brought reversal OF
the Cuno creed of passive resistance TO
Germany's former enemies, replacing II
with a policy of reconciliation which
largely restored the Reich to much OF
its former international good standing.
News of the foreign minister's death
crept slowly throughout the German
capital; everywhere 1t came as great
shock. Flags we're lowered to half staff
and the city took on an appearance Of
mourning, for DR. StreSemann COM
manded nationwide respect, even from
his bitterest political enemies.
The Reichstag session at 10 o'clock
was made special mourning observ-
ance for his death.
npTANn GRIEF STRICKEN