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...democracy?-just look at the cables from over the whole world. Dictatorship of some sort or other is the favorite idea. The only good the War did is to show that a nation, not well armed, is powerless, and that such a nation gets no help from anybody." Maximilian Harden, German editor, intractable enemy of the Hohen- zollerns: "The certainty that war has lost its last glowing charm of romantic chivalry or knighthood, that it has lost the manly nobility of a fight to be decided by personal valor, and has become an endless war of industrial masses of matter...
Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 56, famed five and ten cent store operator, to Mabel Doris Mercer, daughter of George A. Mercer (onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie) and divorced wife of Percival Harden, publisher of The Club Fellow (a weekly similar to Town Topics?only more blatant); in Manhattan. He was divorced (TIME, March 3) by Anna Harvey Kresge, who charged lack of affection, sulking...
...power of Stinnes over the German mind is shown in Harden's book, by an imaginary dialogue between two men-in-the-street. They declare in all seriousness that Stinnes has proposed to convert the Papacy into a company called "St. Peter's Successors, Limited" with which is to be amalgamated "the Russian Greek Orthodox Church and affiliated in the form of a religious syndicate with other religious organizations in- cluding the Tibetan Lama Church, and that he has plans for establishing a paper factory in the Vatican grounds and founding a moving picture city near Rome which...
...Harden also gives interesting side-lights on Stinnes from the lips of the late Albert Ballin, famed head of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line. After a meeting at which Harden had introduced Stinnes to Ballin, the latter said: "Stinnes is the greatest of the Rhineland captains of industry; but just as some children cannot leave a crumb of cake, and some men cannot leave a woman alone, so Stinnes cannot keep his hands off a single business undertaking even when it belongs to another...
Animadverting upon the Stinnes ch?iacter, Harden writes: "Does broad, wild, smiling Nature delight him? I am not sure. I rather believe that if a magician had whisked him to a high Himalayan plateau he would instantly have begun studying its geological and economic possi- bilities...