Word: bismarckers
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...intercepted a British intelligence report written in invisible ink on an agent's petticoat-a device that was considered highly original when it cropped up again during World War I.) Characteristically, however, it was Prussia that introduced Europe to mass espionage. Wilhelm Stieber, spymaster to Bismarck, boasted that he had some 40,000 agents in France at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Stieber was almost surely exaggerating, but his vacuum-cleaner espionage technique did supply the Prussian army not only with military information but with accurate estimates of the finances of leading citizens in occupied...
...Right Perspective. To help him run Haus Villigst, 43-year-old Hellmut Keusen has two fellow directors, Novelist Willy Kramp, 44, and Labor-Expert Klaus von Bismarck, 40, great-grandnephew of the Iron Chancellor, and a U.S. couple, the Rev. John Healey, and his wife Kay, on missionary assignment from the Presbyterian Church...
...Garrison Dam. It was a ride reminiscent of the great days of the 1952 campaign. At intersections and in the small, dusty towns along Route 83, farmers and their families gathered to wave at the President. Here and there a well-worn "I Like Ike" banner appeared, and in Bismarck, one shapely young woman in a black bathing suit had plastered the word "Ike" across her waist in white tape...
...skepticism, Adenauer might lose an election to the West German Social Democrats, who are not as adamant as he in refusing to dicker with the Communists. Adenauer also fears that the Russian moves might lead to Big Four negotiations over Germany, in which the Germans would have no voice. "Bismarck," he said, "spoke of his nightmare of a foreign coalition against Germany. I also have a nightmare. Its name is Potsdam." He demanded more convincing Communist concessions: the release of 300,000 German P.W.s still held in Russia, and free, all-German elections. "Anything less," said Adenauer, "would...
Throne & Altar. Dibelius was born in Berlin, the son of a high government official in a Germany prosperous, pious and proud. It was 1880, just nine years after Count Otto von Bismarck had Wilhelm I crowned Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors of the defeated French at Versailles. The Dibeliuses were a family of civil servants and clergymen -an uncle of Otto's was court chaplain to the King of Saxony-and he was brought up, as he tells it, "in the Reich tradition." The hero of his student days at the University of Berlin was "Bismarck...