Word: kaiserism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the brilliant sunshine which Germans call "Hitler weather"-they used to call it "Kaiser weather"-the Führer rumbled off to Danzig in a six-wheeled juggernaut staff car, followed by two Gestapo cars in which guards sat fingering new-style German repeater rifles. They did not shoot when the sidewalk lines of brown-shirted storm troops holding people back in Danzig were repeatedly broken as crowds surged forward cheering. One break was made by a brawny group of Red Cross nurses. Whooping with excitement, young Danzig students risked their lives in dashes right to the juggernaut...
...Foreign Ministry, in Poland; Captain Antoni Janusz, 42, winner last year of the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, in Poland; Dr. Florence Newsom, British Red Cross worker, in Poland, when her plane was shot down; Prince Oskar of Prussia, 24, Lieutenant of the 51st German Infantry Regiment, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, one of eight Princes of the ex-royal family in active service,*"while leading an attack by his company" in Poland...
...eight: one of the Kaiser's sons, the late Oskar's father Oskar, and seven grandsons-three sons of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, one of Prince Adalbert, one of the late Prince Joachim, two of Prince Oskar the Elder...
...steel sharks that sank 6,000 commercial ships in World War I were active again last week, concentrated between Ireland and Portugal, from the English Channel toward mid-Atlantic; although, Adolf Hitler had 72 submarines compared to 140 the Kaiser had when his war ended. British raiders were also in evidence, preying on German shipping. Total losses for the week: Germany, four ships, 14,764 tons; Allies, 16 ships, 89,841 tons. Mystery of the week: where was the Bremen, unreported twelve days after her dash out of New York Harbor...
...World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm-who has since become a dilettante theologian ,nd preacher to his household-called upon his God so often that Gott Mit Uns ("God with us") became an international joke. On the Allied side, however, plenty of preachers dragged the deity into the war; some of them lived to apologize...