The Washington times., 1936-06-11
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L1ndOn PrOUeS
Early Bird
STRESEMANN
BY HELEN ESSARY

ernor Landon'S floor manager at
Cleveland. Mr.. Martin was sleep
Ing peacefully and gratefully the
first morning of the convention
when the telephone beside his
bed rang. Mr.. Martin looked at
his watch. It was o'clock.
Hello" he said gruffly,
"whO is this?"
"It's the Governor of Kan.
sas," said the voice.
Don't kid me-" said Mr..
Martin. Pm too tired. Maybe
you're Franklin Roosevelt"
Il told yOu," said the voice.
I'm Governor LandOn."
1t took about five minutes for
the candidate to convince his
sleepy floor manager that he was
himself.
what do you have on your
mind?" asked Mr.. Martin
finally.
Nothing in particular" said
the Governor. "I'm just set
Ting down after breakfast and
thought I'd say hello"
AS I remarked before-the hour
was q!
Frau Gustav Stresemann,
whose husband was Foreign Min
lister of Germany during the
years between the end of the
World War and the beginning Of
the Hitler regime-her sister
was Madame Poincare, wife of
the French Presidents now the
guest of Mrs. Mathew E. Hanna
at her home on Massachusetts,
Avenue.
Herr Stresemann, you remem-
Der, was one of the great figures
of postwar Germany. He helped
draw up the Locarno Pact, in
which the big European Powers
promised not to attack each
other or invade each others ter
fitory.
Herr Hitler, however, tore up
the Locarno Pact and took pos
session last year of the Rhine
land.
Frau StreSemann was one OF
the most fascinating personalities
in the international life of Berlin
and Geneva. She looked young
and particularly lovely yesterday.
Her tall, slender figure was
Smartly gowned and she wore
the best looking black hat I have
seen this spring.
When 1 talked to her I thought
Of a story I had heard in Gen
eva about 10 years ago. This
was at the time that Germany
was admitted to the League of
Nations.
BRAND, the French Premier,
had made a thrilling speech an
nouncing Germany's entrance to
the League. Later, Stresemann,
big and square and definitely Teu-
tonic, was sitting rather bored at
a formal dinner beside an Am
bassadoreSs. The AmbaSsadoress
said, looking across the table:
"HOw beautiful your wife is
tonight"
Tonight" exclaimed Strese-
mann. my wife is always beau.
tiful."
Frau Stresemann was eager to
talk of Geneva where she said
she had had such happy times.
While the Undersecretary of
State and Mrs. William Phillips,
the James Clement Dunns, Gen.
and Mrs. John H. Russell, Gen.
and Mrs. Louis Mccarthy Little,
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Mr.. E.
Pendleton Turner, Mr.. Ralph
Snowden Hill, Mrs. Phillip Coffin,
Miss Marian Trumbell and Mrs.
Sol Bloom and few others
chatted in informal groups, Frau
Stresemann told me how grieved
her husband had been that the
United States had not joined the
League of Nations.
"Then none of the recent ter
rible things would have hap
pened to the world" she said,
eff your country had helped u.s."
Herr StreSemann's memoirs of
Geneva and Berlin and Locarno
are now being translated into
English. One volume has already
appeared.
washington pleases Frau Strese-
mann greatly. She likes it's big
broad streets. It's green trees.
"The city is small and very
beautiful and pleasant" she
said. 1T is so quiet 1 can take
a nap after luncheon"
In a biography of StreSemann
I found a paragraph last night
telling of Frau Stresemann'S re-
mark when her husband was
made minister of foreign affairs.
at will be a great, great
honor" she declared. But then
I'll have no private life, and
never see my husband. I'll have
to entertain so many people. 1
know I'll never have time for a
nap after luncheon"
Mrs. Hanna, whose husband was
American minister to Guatemala
and who died several months ago,
plans to settle for while in Wash,
ington. Before her marriage she
was Baroness Won Rheinbaden, a
member of the old German nobil-
ity. Mrs. Hanna's charming sis
ter, the Baroness Won Blumenfold
is spending the early summer with
Mrs. Hanna.