Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More important, his ceaseless insistence on ruthless, unrestricted submarine warfare was the direct cause of the U.S. entry on the side of the allies. Yet for 20 years the commanding gentleman with the white forked beard was a German figure second in popular familiarity only to that of the Kaiser himself. (Almost unknown until 1916 was grave, grizzled Paul von Hindenburg, general of division...
...born in Kustrin, Prussia, in 1849. At the age of 16 he became a cadet in the so-called Royal Prussian Navy, which then consisted of a handful of sham frigates.* In 1897, by steady regular promotion he had become German Naval Secretary and an intimate friend of the Kaiser. In 1900 his "von" was registered in the Almanach de Gotha. In 1911 he was appointed Grand Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. All this time, with the Kaiser's enthusiastic approval he was turning British sea lords livid by building up from practically nothing a navy that...
...Honor. Without exception they have gotten to be Francophile. They have warmed up from cold or luke warm to hot in shouting that we oughtn't to collect from France what they certainly owe us! You know the men I mean-such as Myron Timothy Herrick. If Kaiser Wilhelm had given him the Iron Cross and if he had become as pro-German as he became pro-French, only Heaven knows what might have happened...
After several years as a member of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Affairs, he was sent by his patron, Cardinal Gasparri to Munich, where he pursued the pacific policies of Pope Benedict XV. In 1917 he conveyed the Papal Peace Note to Kaiser Wilhelm...
Birthday. Onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II; at Doom, Holland...