Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Edward R. Burke, Nebraska's loud non-New Deal Democrat, returned from a trip abroad with plenty to say. Sample: "In the things Hitler actually is doing to bring about the well-being of the entire German people, I think that he is greater than Bismarck. He already has done more than Bismarck did for the masses of people...
Alfred Krupp was the particular protégé of Bismarck and Wilhelm I. The Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia...
...Langer, once Mr. Nye's good friend, called him a Peace "racketeer," a Washington nonentity who got nothing for his State. Mr. Nye, who has built up his own Progressive Republican machine after surrendering the old Non-Partisan League to Mr. Langer, retorted that the Langer administration at Bismarck was full of graft. One mistake Mr. Langer made: he quarreled with able Representative William Lemke of Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act fame. For two days the wheat waved to & fro while the ballots were counted. The result: though all the rest of the Langer ticket won, Mr. Lemke...
...Rightists openly predict that France will never come to the little nation's aid and even French Socialists and Radical Socialists are lukewarm to the pledge. The effectiveness of Russian assistance, weakened by purges in the Red Army and by internal conditions, is a large unknown. However, what Bismarck said about Bohemia still holds, and if Czechoslovakia's allies might not come to the aid of Czechoslovakia, they might come to the aid of democracy and Europe...
...from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I put heart and soul into making Berlin a fitting capital of Prussia, but not until after the victorious war with France in 1871-when Bismarck founded the Second Reich, had King Wilhelm I proclaimed Emperor at Versailles-did Berlin assume world importance. Her population...