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...cycle of budding, maturing, and deteriorating; year in, year out, their eyes and senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria, the visiting officers and nobles who profaned rustic Masses by singing Deutschland über alles before the Te Deum...
...cannot ignore the idealogical issues," Karpovich continued. The spread of totalitarianism means the destruction of democracy and constitutional government. Bismarck could leave conquered nations alone. Hitler cannot." British imperial expansion on the other hand, has extended the domains of democracy, the speaker pointed...
...torrent of anti-Nazi films are three recent motion pictures: 1. The Mortal Storm; The Man I Married; Pastor Hall. 2. Waterloo Bridge; Fight for Life; Air Death. 3. Foreign Correspondent; To the Victor; Our Town. 4. Grey Legions ; Sky Hawks ; They Drive by Night. 5. After Bismarck; The Secret Weapon...
...ended the Second Empire, but not the Franco-Prussian War. Invested by the German Armies, cut off from the rest of France, without defenders at the front, Paris organized its own resistance under fiery, one-eyed Interior Minister Leon Gambetta. The city held out for four desperate months. Then Bismarck laid down his harsh peace terms to the provisional Government of Adolphe Thiers at Versailles. Radical Parisians, still armed for the siege and fearing a restoration of the monarchy, set up a revolutionary Commune on March 18, 1871. The city which had previously been bombarded by the Germans was again...
...Bismarck, N. Dak., Mrs. Augusta Gasck was given the choice of paying $10 a month alimony to her ex-husband, or going to jail. She chose jail...