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The modern Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) has no Dlchterbund (literally, league of poets—school) to interpret national aspirations. It has produced neither a Schiller nor a Goethe, but it has created a Herr Hugo Stinnes.

Dr. Ludwig Stein, for 20 years foreign editor of the Vossische Zeitung, a professor of the University of Berne in Switzerland, made some interesting comments upon "the master of coke" in an address last week in Manhattan. Said he: "Give me two hours with my old friend, Hugo Stinnes and we will make peace better than you statesmen can...

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