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...Quiet on the Western Front" was removed from all Italian book stalls by the police on the grounds that it was too pacifistic. In 1910, the Kalser of the German Empire told his army in a public address that the time was coming when their duty to their fatherland would demand their facing the armed forces of Europe. No one paid any attention to what seemed only an excess of patriotism. Three years later Europe was in the grip of the World...
...desperation the fat Mayor of Germersheim leaped upon a truck, begged the mob in the Fatherland's name to disgrace Germany no further, promised to go to Munich and intercede in their behalf...
German-American Vines. So unusual is mob violence in Germany that the whole Fatherland was shocked last week, when 5.000 Rhineland peasants sullenly surrounded the District Court House at quaint Germersheim. Shaking gnarled fists, brandishing keen pruning knives, they behaved exactly like U. S. citizens about to lynch...
Probably 95% of the Fatherland's ballot casters would vote for HINDENBURG today, yet five years ago he was chosen by but 14,600,000 ballots, while his Centre Party rival, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, received...
Nosing over to England from the Fatherland, the long silver cigar radioed down a question: "Where is the King?" Up flashed the answer: "At Wembley." The long cigar nuzzled over toward the stadium. Not since Zeppelins last bombed England 14 years ago has a German airship flown over London. For good measure the Graf skimmed Buckingham Palace at a height of barely 200 ft., seemed almost to brush the treetops...