Foreign News: Stresemann Tucked In

The interest of Germans in last week's general election (see above) was scarcely keener than their anxious curiosity about the functions of the two kidneys of Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, now generally considered the ablest statesman of Republican Germany.

During the week Dr. Stresemann was sick nigh unto Death. Therefore, in the minds of his countrymen, it was by no means disrespectful but instead highly laudable to discuss minutely the state of those organs which caused the trouble. The three physicians attending Dr. Stresemann responded to public demand with copious bulletins as exciting to some readers as the minutes of a...

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