Word: friedrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, has asked the girls in his course on Public Opinion and Propaganda to learn if the possibility of war has caused women to prefer girls to boys, who might become the victims of the conflict...
...Robert Ley, Nazi Labor Front leader, cribbed a few words from Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, stole a sentence from Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried and made a speech last week. Right in line with the Nazis' new face-Lefting, Dr. Ley cried...
When great men go into eclipse they usually become writers or schemers, or both. During the 21 years of his exile at Doom, The Netherlands, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, has written millions of words in articles, memoirs (unfinished) and private correspondence. And he has never given up hope for a Hohenzollern restoration in Germany. As late as January 1930 he was quoted as saying: "The people will call back their Kaiser." Although Wilhelm II has had to be careful to obey the no-politics order...
...civil war and thinking she was winning the World War, vetoed any cooperation with England. Mannerheim resigned in a huff and the newly elected Regent, Per Svinhufvud, asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. The Kaiser proposed his brother-in-law, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, who was promptly elected by the Finnish Diet. Next thing the Finns knew, the Allies had won the war and Finland was caught with its pants down. The only man who could get them up was Mannerheim...
...principles that had caused him to quit the previous May were accepted by the group in power: 1) no rapprochement with Germany; 2) retention of a strong Finnish Army. Mannerheim went to London and Paris, dickered for recognition. When he returned to Helsinki, Regent Svinhufvud resigned, Prince Friedrich Karl renounced his right to the throne, and Mannerheim became Regent of Finland...