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...Monseigneur: The Russian Congress, which unites all the patriots aspiring to the re-establishment of the Russian nation, acclaims in the person of your Imperial Highness the foreordained representative of the nationalist idea as well as the glorious supreme chief of the army and defender of the fatherland since the first days of our Calvary...
...Upon the issuance of your appeal all Russians without exception will take up unhesitatingly the glorious task of liberating the fatherland...
Herr Editor Richard Dominick of the Dresden Socialist news organ Meissener Volksstimme, was placed on trial last week, charged with "insulting the armed forces of the Fatherland," because he printed last year an editorial censuring the "militaristic" practice of permitting children to play with tin soldiers...
...bleeds," he said, "as I see how under the rule of the Republic the beautiful structure of the past is being demolished, piece by piece. . . . The new rulers, animated by a fanatic hate, without understanding of our traditions" or our holy culture, are undermining the whole structure of the Fatherland...
When U. S. citizens last focused their attention on Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., he was sailing toward home and Fatherland, while the U. S. War-time press thundered accusations that his agents had encomposed every crime from espionage and arson to letting loose deadly bacilli among the perambulators in Central Park, Manhattan...