Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and head of the Civil Affairs Training School, will lecture on "The Changing Pattern of Government" in one of 17 individual meetings held today and tomorrow at the 54th annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association in Cambridge. This meeting marks the fourth gathering since the beginning...
...addition to Professor Friedrich, the speakers at this meeting, which will be attended by more than 300 New England college and school teachers, include: George F. Zook, President of the American Council on Education, talking on "The Role of the Federal Government in Education"; Lt. Colonel Herbert G. Espy of the Army's Education Branch, talking on war veterans; Professor Hugh W. Babb of Boston University on the Russian experiment in government; Margaret Mead, Executive Secretary, National Research Council, on intercultural understanding...
Committee No. 2 was the League of German Officers. It consists of German officers and soldiers captured by the Russians at Stalingrad and elsewhere. Its most publicized leaders were Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who commanded the German armies at Stalingrad; General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the German LI Army Corps at Stalingrad; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck...
...better dynastic days the Hohenzollerns had had an astonishing appetite for real estate. "Come to think of it, I would like to have Windsor Castle for a summer resort," Kaiser Wilhelm II once casually remarked. His second son Eitel Friedrich chimed in: "And you will let me have the Isle of Man, won't you?" After the Kaiser had fled to Holland, where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam...
Five years of exile were all that Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm could stand. After that, he scraped along with the German estates which the Weimar Republic considerately left to him. Berliners got to know him as a fop who drove a racy red roadster to the capital's better hot spots and was unpleasantly wolfish at his own parties. His four sons went various ways : Louis Ferdinand worked for a while in Henry Ford's plant in Detroit, then married a Russian refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost...