Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Protests. To the rabble that thus voted, former Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, second son of Wilhelm der Zweite, issued a manifesto expressing his "surprise" and stigmatizing their "ingratitude": "Though the Princely Houses are willing to compromise with the State, they must be accorded the rights of first-class citizens. . . . Let it be remembered that of the 42 princes who?saw front line service during the War, 14 were killed...
...faced German. Last week he motor-boated from Swiss Locarno across Lake Maggiore to Italian Stresa and there took the train for Milan. The next night he returned past Lake Maggiore, hurried on to Lucerne, where he doffed his incognito and admitted that he was the former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany...
Last week, for the first time since the War, Dutch frontier guards allowed Germans to enter the Netherlands without having their passports visaed. A few hours after this regulation went into force Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst, onetime Crown Prince of Germany, crossed the Dutch frontier and was met at Amersfoort by his uncle, the former Prince Henry of Prussia, that jovial "Sailor Prince" who visited the U.S. in 1902 to officiate at the launching of the Kaiser's U.S.-built yacht. Swiftly the aged uncle and the now perceptibly aging nephew sped to Doorn...
Much excitement was aroused when the Socialists introduced into the debate statistics allegedly showing that three sons of the former Kaiser are drawing annual pensions as follows from the Republic: Eitel Friedrich, 10,000 gold marks ($2,380); Oscar, 7,500 ($1,785); Adalbert, 5,000 ($1,190). The Kaiser's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia (see HOLLAND), is said to receive 17,000 a year ($4,046) as a retired Admiral...
...phrase of the Garrick Gaieties (now on Broadway), though Friedrich Augustus III once had a "seat on his throne," he has since been "thrown on his seat...