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Founded in 1811, the Krupp firm sold arms to all nations and all causes, became a symbol of Bismarck's blood & iron Reich under Alfred Krupp, the present Krupp's great-grandfather. During his trial, Alfred Krupp said: "As a member of the fifth generation which produced steel, the fourth generation which forged weapons, I should like to add one thing. Never in my parents' home . . . did I hear one word or experience one act which welcomed or promoted any war at any place or at any time. The symbol of our house does not depict...
Prussia's greatest statesman, Prince Otto von Bismarck, often maintained that the squabbling states of Germany would never be united except by blood and iron, but lived to acknowledge that coal and iron played the larger role. Last week six Western European nations, including the ancient enemies France and Germany who have three times tried blood and iron, gave coal and iron a chance to unite them...
...asking for a third term. His key line: "If you have a problem, write to me." Reporters noticed, however, that Langer did not kiss babies. An admirer explained: "Old Bill, he's smart. He knows this is the antiseptic age." Traveling with him was Reporter Alden MacLachlan of Bismarck, representing ten A.P. newspapers. Langer always introduced him as "the reporter from the Fargo Forum [an anti-Langer paper] who follows me around to write lies about me . . . Stand up and let them see what your kind of man looks like." Back in the car, Langer would chuckle: "Well...
...Bismarck, N.D., where dozens of oil companies have now set up offices, April saw the biggest gain in business (12%) of any city in the U.S. Nobody yet knows how vast the basin's oil pools may be, but Amerada, Shell, Texaco and others have already brought in wells as far as 115 miles apart. Since oil has also been found across the Canadian border in Saskatchewan, oilmen suspect that the Williston pool extends there, think they may find fields rivaling Alberta's great Leduc and Redwater fields...
...Bismarck, Not Hitler. In the beginning, Reinold von Thadden's world and his church were comfortably unified. His family were old East Prussian nobility with a strong religious tradition. His great-randfather made the family estate a famous center of pietism-at 31, a hitherto skeptical young Otto von Bismarck prayed for the first time in 15 years during a visit there. Reinold fell into the family tradition, became a lay leader of the Pomeranian state church...