Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adjutant telegraphers and telephonists interrupted momentarily the Kaiser's audience with his generals. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden was telephoning from Berlin. Local revolutions, prepared throughout Germany by the Independent Socialists had broken out at Kiel (Nov. 6), Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Magdeburg, Dresden. ... At Berlin a tide of civilian workers and mutinous soldiers was milling through the streets. Prince Max demanded that the Kaiser abdicate. The populace, he declared, had been convinced by Allied propaganda that the Allies would never make peace with a Hohenzollern, would trample across Germany to Berlin...
...messages poured in, Wilhelm remained pale but self possessed. He asked whether enough troops remained loyal for him to retreat with them to Berlin for a last stand. General Groner again spared Feldmarschall von Hindenburg the necessity of a reply. At last the Kaiser spoke: "Inform Prince Max that I abdicate as Emperor of Germany but not as King of Prussia...
...adjutant rushed to the telephone. Too late. Prince Max had already announced at Berlin on his own responsibility the abdication of Wilhelm II both as Emperor and King. Completely terrified by the mob, Prince Max officially turned over the Imperial Chancellorship to onetime saddlemaker Ebert, leader of the Social Democratic Party, subsequently elected 1st President of the Reich...
Married. Arthur Ruhl, famed and able European correspondent (TIME, Sept. 28, RUSSIA, "Ruhl's Report") for the New York Herald Tribune, to Zinaida Yakounchikoff, a Russian refugee; in Berlin. Her father, now a Riviera hotel keeper, was once a Tsaral functionary. Until recently she gave language lessons in Berlin...
Sued for Divorce. General Eric von Ludendorff, "the brains of old Paul von Hindenburg," now active in German: Fascist politics, by Frau Ludendorff, daughter of a wealthy dairyman; in Berlin. She was said to have annoyed the General by incessant smoking. Frau Dr. Martha yon Kemnitz, ultra-Fascist publicist, was mentioned last week as his potential fiancee...