Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inquired the German Foreign Office of the U. S. Department of State, "Will Baron Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz (preetveets) und Gaffron be persona grata to you as Ambassador...
...Reichstag reassembled. Business urgent and important necessitated an extraordinary session, but the affairs of state were not so important and urgent that the Deputies did not throng to the ceremony of unveiling marble busts of Germany's first two Presidents: Friedrich Ebert (died in office, Feb. 28, 1925) and Generalfeld-marschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von Hinderburg...
Meanwhile the Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich Christian Charles, a Major General, was Grand Master of the Order of St. John. He had taken to wife the Princess Charlotte of Oldenburg, petite and ravishing as her famed ancestress Queen Louise of Prussia.* Ostensibly this smart and dashing royal couple also lived in a state of virtue suitable to the household of a Grand Master of St. John. Actually their secrets were fashionably half concealed. They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg...
...such flimsy, hearsay tittle-tattle. At last, in 1926, Princess Charlotte divorced her husband, charging that he had caused her "mental anguish." Presumably this violated his oath to "protect women . . . and weak." A conclave of 'the Order of St. John met secretly, accepted the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich as Grand Master, then declared him "an honorary Knight of St. John...
Only last week, eight months after the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich, was the Order of St. John moved to invest Prince Oscar as Grand Master, after an exhaustive investigation of his private life...