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...troops to General Müller, Reichswehr Commander in Saxony, and instructions to restore and preserve constitutional conditions in the Free State. These orders were transmitted by General Müller to the people and to the Government. The position appeared to be that the Berlin Government intended to crush a revolt by Communist Saxony with the utmost severity in order thereby to please monarchist Bavaria...
...perennial interest which is manifested in all attempts at true spiritualism, in face of thousands of false alarms such as this seems to indicate some basic truth. Even the juggernaut of science cannot crush man's propensity to be metaphysical, for hope is as much a part of human nature as is trickery. Then, too, the presence of such sincere men as Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge in the field has added an air of genuineness to the discussions. Perhaps the very philosophy of William James gives the answer to the problem. All that is necessary is "the Will...
Reich Dictator. The setting up of a Dictator with wide powers to crush revolt is undoubtedly a protectionist policy. The rise of a Dictator in Germany was expected and was only a corollary of successive failures on the part of various Governments to deal with a complex internal situation aggravated by still more complex foreign relations and obligations. The political currents flowing against the sides of the Government barge were strong and numerous. There were the Monarchists, whose ranks were split by the Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach factions; the Communists, whose opposition to the Government was equal to that...
...Parliament). Red chiefs were arrested and imprisoned, except in cases where they had succeeded in crossing the frontier of France or Portugal. All the civil governors were dismissed. Don Luis Silvela, Spanish High Commissioner for Morocco, was replaced by General Aizpuru Mondejas, who was endowed with " full powers to crush Abdel Krim and retrieve the honor of the Spanish Army." Meanwhile Spain is to be governed by an oligarchy of virtual despots until such a time as "another better Cortes which will represent the people's will" can be convened. An election is to be held in the future...
Speaking of the visits of Monarchists on steam yachts at Wieringen (present headquarters of the ex-crown Prince), he said: "What these gentlemen spoke of I cannot say. In any event it must have been an awful crush in the vicarage where the Crown Prince lives, if a few hundred ladies and gentlemen all crowded into the small house to conspire...