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

— 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.

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.

The question of Belgium must not be detached from the complex of the Western questions as a whole. Belgium is a most valuable pledge in our hands.

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