Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, they provided an enlightening glimpse into that enigma, the collective German mind. Though they may have been chastened, the Germans had lost none of their admiration for strong men. Top place (with 3,937 out of 8,500 votes) went to Germany's first Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who once bragged that the great problems of history are solved by blood & iron. Next, with 773 votes, came Winston Churchill, who had helped to break up Bismarck's Reich with blood & sweat...
Ferdinand's chance came in 1887. Stefan Stambolov, Bulgaria's anti-Russian, anti-Turkish "Bismarck," looking around for a new prince, settled on Clementine's Ferdinand. Subsequently, a contemporary account records, Ferdinand, a "handsome, smiling, slender youth, perfectly corseted, lips and cheeks bravely rouged, leaving in his wake an exotic perfume, rode gallantly into Sofia amid the cheers of his devoted people." His confidence in his people's devotion was not unbounded; he kept a pistol on his desk when receiving visitors...
...River in German East Africa and proceeded to bombard an unseen target. When the shelling was over, the 3,400-ton cruiser Königsberg, camouflaged and in hiding 17 miles upstream, was an unrecognizable mass of twisted steel. She was to Germany in World War I what the Bismarck was in World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British admiral's flagship that day stood the man who had found the Königsberg, a slender...
...Catholic Church had faced such laws before (in Canada and Mexico) and knew just what to do. Rather than allow schools to close for lack of teachers, said Bishop Vincent J. Ryan of Bismarck last week, nuns would be told to wear 'respectable secular dress. Some of the law's sponsors solicited support [by claiming] that it would keep Catholic sisters from teaching . . . [but] no law can, under the protection of our Constitution, discriminate against any teacher on account of religious membership or belief...
...thousands of Germans last week remembered the tricolors as the flag of Germany's first parliament, which had met in the Pauls-Kirche just 100 years ago. The Frankfurt Assembly had died young, succumbing to the "unity" of Berlin and Bismarck. Last week those who remembered those lost beginnings gathered at battered old St. Paul...