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Life in Wilhelm Hohenzollern's 30-acre realm of Doom in Holland is always stiff with etiquet. A Court Gazette tells the miniscule doings of the court, gives notice two weeks in advance of those whom the onetime Kaiser has graciously agreed to receive. When Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt's news-nosing son "Neely" tried to crash the ex-Kaiser's presence last spring, he was repulsed with the stiff story that he had not been Gazetted two weeks in advance. But life at Doom is terribly sleepy. In the ivied main palace and the outlying smaller...
...Leipzig printing house signalized the occasion by publishing a book he had written on Oriental symbols, eruditely entitled : The Chinese Monad: its History and Meaning. While Doom hummed with Monarchist delegations, Wilhelm decorated his head gardener and eight under-gardeners with the Royal Order of the House of Hohenzollern, led another religious service for his kin and house servants, inspected tons of birthday gifts including one huge wild boar (live) and bushels of congratulations. Protesting that "the only birthdays worth making memorable are those marking decades," he reminded his guests that in five years he will...
Quivering with rage His Majesty replied : "Not even the Hohenzollern head of my house would have ventured to ask so much from me. How dare you make such requests...
...House of Hohenzollern, as most Germans believe, backed Adolf Hitler with secret cash at the start of his skyrocket career, Investors Wilhelm II and ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm must have groaned last week to see their Nazi equity apparently wiped...
Guessing that the pseudo-apostolic Reichsführer would relish an attack on a Hohenzollern, blatant Der Deutsche, organ of the Nazi Labor Front, flayed onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm for collecting fat fees from sportsmen who lease the shooting rights on his Silesian estates. Calling this a "scandal," Der Deutsche demanded that unemployed persons be settled on the estates as farmers, "thus creating thousands of jobs and millions in new values...