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Show DR. BERNHARD DERNBURG Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, former imperial secretary of state for colonies, colon-ies, who is now in the United States on behalf of Germany, Is one of the foremost men of his country. He Is well acquainted with American historical, his-torical, political, economic, financial and social conditions, as he received his early training in the New York office of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., bankers, and since that time has been a frequent visitor to the United States. When he was German imperial im-perial secretary of the colonies, Doctor Doc-tor Dernburg spent eight weeks in this country investigating the cotton question with a view of applying American plantation methods to cotton cot-ton in the German colonies. In 1913, on the occasion of the emperor's jubilee, Doctor Dernburg was called into the Prussian house of lords as a life member. This was an indication of special roval confidence. He is honorary doctor of the political science faculty of Munich and of the law faculty of Koenigsberg. The Berlin Ber-lin faculty has also appointed him an honorary doctor of law. |