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...took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was and is the prime personification of Prussian Kultur as it conceived itself to be ? Feld marschall August von Mackensen...
...safekeeping, photographing and occasional exhibiting, arrived last week eight pages of cramped and cryptic handwriting. The bushywooled savant whose pen had scratched, squiggled, crossed out and corrected was no less a personage than Germany's Albert Einstein. These pages were the original manuscript of his Zur Ein-heitlichen Feld-Theorie (TIME...
...story about Feld Marshal von Machensen, which had been published several times before without denial, it rings true, and when I consider the veracity of TIME, and compare it with that of members of the German High Command, I prefer to believe TIME. We have not yet forgotten how Feld Marshal von Machensen, et al, broke their pledged word, as evinced by solemn treaty, and invaded Belgium without any right except that of might. If their word was of no value in 1914 what reason have we to believe that the leopard has changed his spots? The same stricture applies...
Last week, New York city balanced its bank account, discovered it had spent $243,430 since January, 1926, for welcomes to Distinguished Guests. Expensive guests: Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin, $110,000; Koehl, Fitzmaurice, von Huene-feld, $60,000; Costes, Lebrix, $15,000. Official Welcomer Grover Whalen wrote Mayor Walker, diffidently: "It would seem opportune ... to raise the question as to how far ... the city should go." Recklessly, New York went ahead with plans to welcome "Lady Lindy," Pilot Stultz, Mechanic Gordon...
...Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their country utterly ravished by German armies under the great Feld-marshall August von Mackensen; but they never wavered from adherence to the Allies and, as a result, Rumania was expanded by the peacemakers into the largest Balkan country. Thus King Ferdinand, although never a dynamic or very statesmanly monarch, was assisted to a great reward by his integrity of purpose...