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Once cold dawn last week, explosive flames spurted from the top floor of North Dakota's four-story brick Capitol at Bismarck. So quickly did they devour tindery old boards and plaster and dry bales of official papers, that by noon all that was left of the 46-year-old building was smoking rubble. When the State was still part of Dakkota Territory, frontiersmen traveled long western miles to stare in pride and wonder at the structure's once famed "gingerbread" architecture...
...northern men are more apt to look askance at the dusky beauties of the South. Also, according to Freud, a young man from the North would not have fallen, thus, from grace. I might add, irrelevantly, that I am a Northerner by birth and tradition. I am originally from Bismarck, N. Dak. My great-grandfather was a personal friend of Lincoln and outfitted a company with his own resources in the Northern army. Relatives and friends still reside in Bismarck. The second mistake was this: Precieuse did not commit suicide. ". . . In the agony of her grief, the white had striven...
When Reichstag deputies would not vote the money Bismarck wanted, he got it by writing out a decree which his King (whom he made Kaiser Wilhelm I) hastened to sign. Fortnight ago the new iron chancellor, who won the "Iron Cross" during the War and was hand-picked for his mettle by old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME, April 7). dissolved the Reichstag by presidential decree when it would not vote the money he wanted. Last week came the final Bismarckian move. Herr Brüning placed his rejected Budget Bill before Old Paul in the form of a decree...
That Prince von Bismarck wanted money for war, whereas Chancellor Brianing must have it to pay the allies, greatly alters the situation, does not alter the principle that last week the German people were placed under a regime of "taxation without representation." Today Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia-all the Great Powers of Europe except France and Britain-are under some form of dictatorship. Of the three Great Powers of South America, Argentina and Chile have dictator-presidents, while Brazil is ruled by a coffee oligarchy. In Africa the King of Egypt and the Emperor of Abyssinia are dictators. Turkey...
Back in Kreuznach the old Feldmar-schall rallied quickly, drank of Rhenish wine from a gargantuan flagon which Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm I drained between them on their return from the Franco-Prussian...