Word: bismarcks
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...that time no united Germany or reich existed, and the words were unquestionably an appeal to the Germanic peoples to place "[united] Germany above all [other ideals], above all in the World!" After Bismarck achieved the ideal of unity by creating the German Empire, many of the Kaiser's subjects sang the old song in the sense of "Germany, Germany above all [other lands], above all in the World!" Some German pacifists object as strongly to Deutschland, Deutschland iiber Alles as do U. S. pacifists to "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting...
Down the Wilhelmstrasse, into the German Chancellery went bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler last week. He was led into the former office of the late great Bismarck. Seated at the Iron Chancellor's old desk, his soft white hands folded before him, sat aged President Paul von Hindenburg. Near him stood smooth, grey Chancellor Franz von Papen and the State Secretary of the Reich, Dr. Otto Meissner...
...reaction and particularly the Army are now strongly in the Japanese ascendent, determined to have Manchuria by fair means or foul, resolved to make of it what they call an "ideal state." Serbia, which no longer exists as such, may have been a nation of assassins. Japan, as Prince Bismarck would have put it, is a profession?refined, subtle, not without its peculiar brand of Japanese idealism...
...Serbians," remarked Prince Bismarck with diplomatic nicety, "are not a people, they are a profession." Putting the same thought crudely, Kaiser Wilhelm II blurted, "Serbians! What are Serbians? Assassins!" Last week even warm friends of Japan asked each other what kind of a nation Japan...
...First Reich: Bismarck's Empire. Second Reich: The Republic. Third Reich: a second Empire...