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Last week Dr. Gessler's words had an honest ring. He is in ill health. Fate has just dealt him a "personal blow" by striking dead, during the past twelvemonth, his two flourishing sons, and, last week, his mother. Since the Fatherland is secure and Otto Gessler stricken, why should he not rest...
Germany chuckled yesterday when it saw Secretary Kellogg's answer to the Briand treaty proposition which called for a signed resolution against all war between France and America. The editors of the Fatherland accused France in no uncertain terms of making a mere stage play to insure kind treatment from Congress when it comes to revise the plans for debt settlement. The return proposal from Washington that all the nations unite in signing this solemn compact for the outlawry of war took the wind out of French Sails. Their aim had been, according to their former enemies, to secure themselves...
...bitter, galling fact that Posen, the birthplace of President Paul von Hindenburg, is no longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to the Baltic by the Treaty of Versailles. With his own province thus a knife in the back of his fatherland, Old Paul von Hindenburg has begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness at a joint meeting...
...testimony pertinent to the legal charge of Superintendent McAndrew's "insubordination" was offered. Frederick Franklin Schrader of Manhattan, onetime associate editor of the War-time pro-German magazine The Fatherland and now editor of The Progressive, testified as had many another, that the British were fouling the minds of U. S. school children. He did not mention Superintendent McAndrew at all. After him went a Chicago school teacher, Rosalie Didier, to exclaim: "To read that Washington was a rebel was to me a desecration and to learn that the Boston Tea Party was vandalism made me feel that Schlesinger...
...With pure hearts we marched out to defend the Fatherland, and with pure hands the German Army wielded the sword. Germany is ever ready to prove it before impartial judges...