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...continuation of World War I when, at his special orders, his mechanical cavalry wheeled their Blitzkrieg harmlessly around the green parks of 8 1 year-old Wilhelm II, who from 1888 to 1918 by the grace of God was German Emperor and King of Prussia. Fuhrer Adolf, ac cording to some reports, would like to see Wilhelm II return to the Reich, live out his days as a Hohenzollern Junker; but the ex-Kaiser, while accepting the protection of Hitler's own guards, kept on chop ping wood at Doom...
Picking up Columbus' second voyage (in 1404) at Cape Maisi on the eastern tip of Cuba, the ketch will follow along what the explorer thought was a peninsula on the Asiatic mainland, and trace his expeditions in search of the Emperor of China...
Sedan is a fateful name to the French. There in 1870 their Second Empire fell to the Prussians. For four years the soldiers of the German Emperor held it after 1914, not to be ousted until five days before Armistice by the French and the U. S. Rainbow Division. On Tuesday afternoon the soldiers of the Third Reich entered Sedan. There was now very little hope of saving Belgium. It was a question of saving France. A further German breakthrough would imperil the whole of France's western defenses to the sea. The French rear areas were taking...
...Roosevelt had to play against war but there were other cards that he might play for peace-perhaps a promise of better trade relations, perhaps a reciprocal trade agreement, possibly even recognition of the conquest of Ethiopia (the U. S. yet addresses Vittorio Emanuele as "King," not "King and Emperor...
Died. Katharina (Käthi) Schratt, 84, mistress of the late Austrian Emperor Franz Josef; in Vienna...