Word: kaiserdom
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...snickered in his lush Van Dyke beard, for Brother Thomas was only preaching what Brother Heinrich has spent a lifetime practising. For some 40 of his 68 years he has been writing a series of historical novels which constitutes a political and sociological record of the German people from Kaiserdom to "folkdom." If there is no Magic Mountain among his collected works, Brother Heinrich might well claim that they form a whole mountain chain with respectable, and occasionally imposing, literary heights...
...found both Thomas Mann and Gustav Stresemann (then an unfamed Reichstag Deputy) ranged hot on the side of Kaiserdom and Conquest. Mann's War-time essays, Reflections of a Non-political Man, show that he shared the general will to spread kultur by the bayonet. Like Stresemann he changed his whole political philosophy after defeat. Both men have been flayed as opportunists. Last week in strongly Royalist Munich, where Republican Mann still lives, news of the Nobel Prize was frigidly received by the newspapers, given scant space, small praise...
...real school. With food ranking equal to bullets as far as war necessities are concerned, the Radcliffe plan is true patriotism. We do not need Battalions of Death or Squadrons of Amazons, but the more Maud Mullers we have during this war summer, the greater our strength against Kaiserdom...
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