Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...