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Another $300 graduate prize was divided between Charles W. Vogel 4G of Cincinnati for an essay on the Bismarck Era and Alvah W. Sulloway 2L of Concord, New Hampshire writing on "The Political Thought of Robert Bellarime...
...Royal Society of St. George. First Lord Churchill had gone to sit in on the Allied Supreme War Council somewhere in France. Ex-First Lord Duff Cooper recalled the historical past of the German people "under the perjured, perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo...
...Welles mission was the biggest story of the week, journalists went in for some superlatives of their own. Headline of the week flared across the pages of the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, with a counterclaim dwarfing Hitler's as much as Hitler's dwarfed Bismarck's - "Roosevelt," headlined the Post, "Wants to Dictate Peace and Become President of World...
Further to publicize the Frederician revival, Germany was flooded with three-headed posters bracketing Frederick the Great, Bismarck and A. Hitler, who likes to be styled, as Frederick was, "First Soldier...
...omen which sailormen believe follows changing a warship's name, interest centred on the "bigger" Deutschland, which must be one of the four 35,000-ton (perhaps 40,000) battleships which Germany is feverishly putting together. Two of these ships, launched last February and April, were christened Bismarck and Tirpitz. A third, on the ways at Kiel, must now be ready to take the water or already has.* Perhaps all three will be ready for action early next autumn. What will that do to the balance of sea power in World...