Word: hollweg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become instantly a friend of that reforming politician, Woodrow Wilson. Five years later when Baruch was accused of using that friendship to make his killing in Steel. Congressional questioning showed a new side of him. Reading between the lines of utterances by Germany's von Bethmann-Hollweg and Britain's Lloyd George - reading matter for the whole world -he had almost alone foreseen developments, made his huge profit without inside information from the White House. The dates of his operations confirmed his claim...
...took 27 years to advance the same distance). Cautious Germans, secretly fearing the Nazi experiment, have long consoled themselves with the thought that the Reichswehr was not yet completely Nazified, that it was entirely loyal to the old Field Marshal. Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg, has such military honor come to any German holding a civilian office. Flaunted before the German people, Hermann Goring's new trousers were a symbol of the Army's belief in Hitlerism...
...Most famed utterance of any German statesman in the 20th Century was "Necessity knows no law" by Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to the Reichstag...
...intimately connected with the struggle, merely smash about at random with the pure joy of the iconoclast. Such a man is Prince von Bulow. In his recently published memoirs he violently attacks a man upon no greater provocation than that he told the truth. In the admission of Bethmann Hollweg that the German invasion of Belgium was a "breach of international law" Bulow finds a stunning tactical error. This may be true, but the Prince goes on to say that Bethmann should have had the political foresight to deny categorically the remark after it had been made. This also, from...