Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known," said the Daily Mail, "that the mother of Captain von Müller, was British." Here was another of the famed "War lies" (TIME, Jan. 21). Capt. von Müller's mother was thoroughly German...
Thus reads one verse of a famed German gloat-hymn, but the fame of the Emden will not live in gloat-verse alone. So decreed President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany, last week...
...that War was declared, the German light cruiser Emden lay in the Yellow Sea, off Tsingtao, China. Capt. Karl von Muller delivered to his crew an oration, elegant yet fiery. The band played "Die Wacht am Rhein" and the Emden cleared decks to commence her single-handed war on enemy shipping...
...sailed the Pacific under a British flag, disguised, with the aid of a disappearing canvas funnel, as the British cruiser Yarmouth. But within 1,000 yds. of her prey the behavior of the Emden was always scrupulously correct. Down came the flag and the dummy funnel; out broke the German ensign...
Laboring in the wilderness on a tract of land eight by 27 miles in dimensions, the doughty Mennonites have already constructed 14 adobe villages. They enjoy local autonomy and cannot be called upon to take up arms. Among themselves they speak German, are rapidly forgetting the English they learned in Canada, and are slowly picking up a little Spanish. At present the Mennonite Colony is almost the only pure Democracy in America...