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During the week German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott and Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli both called on Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka conferred with his chiefs of Military and Naval Affairs, while Emperor Hirohito received War Minister Eiki Tojo. A Government spokesman denied, as he must, a report that Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was seeking a neutrality pact in Washington...
...Elector of Brandenburg, who helped bring about the Treaty of Westphalia after the Thirty Years' War that reduced Germany to ruin. It was Friedrich Wilhelm who started the Hohenzollerns on the road to the leadership of Germany, and his son, Friedrich I, who persuaded the Holy Roman Emperor to style him King in Prussia. Of Friedrich's grandson, Frederick the Great, the Kaiser must have thought, because it was Frederick the Great who built Europe's first modern army and challenged the power of the Habsburgs. Certainly his thoughts turned to his own grandfather, Wilhelm...
...Power and Glory. Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert, son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, was born in 1859, three and one-half years before Bismarck became Chancellor. Bismarck soon weaned him away from his none-too-doting parents, persuaded his Emperor-Grandfather to make him a Lieutenant of Infantry at the age of ten. Bismarck had him riding a horse at twelve in the victory parade when Wilhelm I celebrated the conquest of France...
Died. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 82, retired emperor; at Doom...
...matter of fact, Vag thought, as he ransacked his memory, those two sentences were about all of the contents of the course he remembered. Some damn battle in 732 and an emperor crossing the Alps to kiss a Pope's big toe, that was about the sum of the facts he had gleaned...