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Sirs: On p. 12 of your issue of Nov. 9 you quoted certain rather vacuous remarks attributed to the young Prince von Bismarck, grandson of the great "Iron Chancellor," now in this country as the guest of his cousin, Baron Leopold Piessen of the German Embassy at Washington. In your article you imply that Prince Bismarck is "commonplace," "Babbitt-tailored," a "fop," a "milksop." Will you not give publicity to the following estimate of Prince Bismarck recently penned by a gentleman whom I believe you have styled "famed Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert." His opinion is probably at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 1, 1926 | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...Bismarck was extremely anxious that the text of the Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: De Blowitz | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

While still a mere stripling, Maximilian Harden attained the notoriety which has ever since been his by attacking Wilhelm der Zweite on the grounds of his private immorality and his public folly in "dropping the pilot," Bismarck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Harden's Contemporaries | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Historians noted that, during the 74 years of Queen Margherita's life, the Kingdom of Italy was created out of a group of petty states. During that period the great Mazzini "watered the ideal of a united Italy with the blood of martyrs." Coincidentally Count Cavour, famed "Bismarck of the Princes of Piedmont," built up their power until his bluff, hearty master, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, became the first King of a united Italy. His son, later Umberto I, married the Princess Margherita, and their reign began in 1878 and ended in 1900. Since then the widowed Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Margherita | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Members of the Prince's suite declared that Edward of Wales is not as violent as Bismarck, Washington, Luther. Said they: "He has kept a diary of all his trips. . . . His comments are extremely interesting, not to say frank. Unfortunately, for reasons of state, it can probably never be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Welles, Inkstand, Bandoleon | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

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