Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emil Ludwig, who wrote about Napoleon (TIME, Feb. 28) now presents a Kaiser...
Eulenburg the Proof. Is Biographer Ludwig a shrewd Clarence Darrow, speciously pleading that the culprit's inferiority complex drove him to War Lordhood? To prove beyond a doubt the tragic duality of the Kaiser's personality, Herr Ludwig presents as secondary only to the Emperor in interpretive importance, his bosom friend for 30 years, Count (later Prince) Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertfield...
Finally revelations in the press by Editor Maximilian Harden compelled the Kaiser to repudiate his closest friends. Wilhelm declared: "It has come to my ears that Eulenburg, Hohenau, Kuno-Moltke [etc.] are perverts. I have no further use for them. This must be made a moral example of before all the world...
Thus ended the reign over Wilhelm II of the brilliant if blighted men who had kept him from war because their own fundamental weakness called for peace. With their passing the Kaiser was drawn into the war, thinks Ludwig, against his will but as the logical consequence of his self deception in picturing himself a War Lord...
...team in this year's jousts. Tennis followers recalled the last appearance of Teuton forces in the court classic, when, late in July, 1914, the German delegation concluding their match with the victorious Australasians a few hours before the declaration of War; rushed overseas to join their Kaiser's colors in more deadly combat...