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I am gladly willing to use my connections to the party and the government to assure for your Imperial Highness the permission to return to Germany.

— Gustav Stresemann

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If the monarchy should return, and we hope it will, then it must be called by the will of the people.

International indebtedness involves not only the usual slavery of debt, but the interest of the creditor nations in the debtor country.

Great Germany can only be created on a republican basis.

We regard the ultimate aim of our efforts as the establishment of a German popular monarchy.

Nearly the entire Reichstag, including the Social Democrats, agrees that we must not allow ourselves to be deprived of the weapon of the U-boat war.

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