Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christchurch waited the impressive monarch of Chatham Islands, King Tami Solomon (392 pounds). His Majesty had to wait until the Mayor of Christchurch and many another had welcomed the Royal Duke; then King Tami (an impotent old tribal chief) was presented to the second son of the King-Emperor George...
...Majesty could do no more. The act was equivalent to conferring knighthood; and the King-Emperor is restricted by custom from conferring a higher title than "Dame" on a woman not already a peeress...
...following pages," warns Biographer Ludwig, "neither Socialist nor alien voices will be heard-only the voices of the Emperor, his relatives and friends, his Chancellors, Ministers and Generals, his courtiers and officials." Out of their own mouths these men condemn themselves-but of very different offenses than were attributed to them during the War. Says the author: "The War-years, to which the youngest reader can bear witness, receive the least extended treatment-for they were merely the logical epilogue to the psychological prologue." Since the author virtually steps down and lets his characters tell their own story, the book...
Eulenburg the Proof. Is Biographer Ludwig a shrewd Clarence Darrow, speciously pleading that the culprit's inferiority complex drove him to War Lordhood? To prove beyond a doubt the tragic duality of the Kaiser's personality, Herr Ludwig presents as secondary only to the Emperor in interpretive importance, his bosom friend for 30 years, Count (later Prince) Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertfield...
...husband's intimate journal has just been published: THE WAR DIARY OF THE EMPEROR FREDERICK III-Stokes ($5). Translated and edited by A. R. Allinson...