Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace mission, as he told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday at his apartment in the Copley. "What difference does it make what country we come from?" he said. It is the politicians who make the wars, not the people. What's the reason of hatred? An American mother and a German mother, they all suffer the same. The American God and the German God are all the same God. All of us are his children...
Again he stopped talking, this time to tear up two phone books at once for a little afternoon exercise. Asked why he had run away from home, he answered. "I wanted to meet Buffalo Bill. All German boys read about Buffalo Bill. He gave me confidence when all my teachers said I would be a burn. So I sold my pet rabbits, changed my name, and started for Hamburg. I sailed on a Russian ship, thinking I would reach American. I landed in Australia and found that the world is round...
...tickets to the luncheon were taken last Saturday but standing room will be available during the address for those who desire to hear the German sea rover...
Here was a German who, far from being the ogre that war propaganda would have us believe, was a sportsman and a gentleman. He took a sporting chance to get through the blockade, and once through it he justified the chance. Not a ship did he destroy without first removing the crew and offering them the very good hospitality of his own vessel. It would be gratifying if the same praise might be said of the hospitality of his subsequent captors. His deeds of daring rival the tales of days before mud and trenches, and cast a much needed glow...
Throughout the trial Count Bethlen could curl his thin lips over a telegraphic appeal for mercy despatched to him from Berlin by several authors of world fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny...