Word: bismarckers
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...submarines. He will base them on all the ports and airdromes along that line which runs like a vast semicircle round Britain, from Narvik down the northern and western coasts of France to Spain. He will have two new 35,000-ton battleships, the Tirpitz and the Bismarck, and other vessels in the North Sea early next year. With these he will try to deliver a knockout blow at our communications so as to prevent us getting the food, the raw materials and airplanes necessary to enable us to continue the war at full strength...
...Monte Cristo (United Artists). Taking up where his lively parent left off, the son of Monte Cristo (Louis Hay ward) finds Joan Bennett ensnarled in the political dirty work of the principality of Lichtenburg during the days of Bismarck and Louis Napoleon. Like California's Zorro, he acts the fop in public, climbs into a black hood in private, lashes out at intrigue with his lethal, hardworking sword. Because nothing, including the eventual death of scheming, scar-faced Gurko Lanen (George Sanders), comes as a surprise, a certain necessary element of suspense is missing from these adventures...
German F, by contrast, leans over backward to avoid touching on present-day Germany. It sticks closely to the cultural and political history of Germany in the "good old days" of the minnesingers, Albrecht Durer, Frederick the Great, and perhaps Bismarck. (The German Club does the same thing, of course...
Prince Saionji's life span was staggering. This was a man who was intimate not only with Balfour, Clemenceau, Hindenburg, Wilson, but who wrestled in the flesh with the Emperor Meiji when the latter was a boy, heard Franz Liszt play his own music, talked politics with Prince Bismarck, had audiences with Queen Victoria and Ulysses S. Grant. As a student in Paris he saw the Commune of 1871 and learned liberalism in its laboratory. His public services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president...
...crisis was over that dusty seesaw of contention, Alsace-Lorraine. The whole area was French from the mid-18th Century until Bismarck seized it in 1871, fell to France again after World War I, and was last week being forcibly Germanized again. When the Nazis began bearing down on Lorrainers last week-contrary to the letter of the Franco-German armistice, according to Vichy-the men of Vichy were angry...