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Most noteworthy person mentioned in the Encyclopedia is Julius Caesar who gets 2,800 words. Only others to receive over 1,500 words are Washington, Lincoln, Bismarck, Mary Queen of Scots. To Christ's 1,200 words. St. Paul gets 1,275; to Stalin's 400, Trotsky gets 650. Should Franklin Roosevelt be nettled to learn that his 800 words fall short of Herbert Hoover's 1,100, he can reflect that he plays the leading role in 850 words on NRA. Other counts: Theodore Roosevelt, 1,400; Wilson, 1,350; Lenin. 1,050; Mussolini, 850; Hitler...
These implications are that fear of Adolf Hitler has produced a repetition of the links forged in fear of Kaiser Wilhelm II. A new German leader has, like the young Kaiser who "Dropped the Pilot," forgotten the wisdom of Prince von Bismarck who knew and affirmed that Germany's ultimate safety must be found in friendship with Russia. Today there is nothing but hate-spewing between German Nazis and Russian Bolsheviks-but the world has come a long way since...
...buffer state, was in no position to carve out a dominion in Africa. Leopold worked well in twilight zones; he knew how to make weakness into strength when he had strong neighbors who were jealous of each other. In the end he possessed himself of the Congo because Bismarck did not want France to get it and because Britain thought Belgium would be a lesser evil in the middle of Africa. The people of Belgium, a thrifty, home-loving lot, did not want the Congo, but Leopold was working on his own. He formed a vague sort of company...
...second time in seven months a Governor of North Dakota last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence...
...Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter of a foreign keeper of a wine shop, and collapsed in a shambles when Bismarck and Moltke sent their crack Prussians into France...