German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, both eager for Franco-German reconciliation, were under siege on all sides: they faced a very weak economy which made meeting government payroll a weekly miracle.
German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius were under siege on all sides. German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius were both eager for Franco-German reconciliation. They faced a very weak economy. This very weak economy made meeting government payroll a weekly miracle.