Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, Privy Councilor to George V, famed naval architect and designer of the Titanic, returned to England last week after a short visit to Wilhelm, onetime Kaiser, at Doorn...
Said Mr. Carlisle (whose daughter married Baron Frederick von Versen, one of the Kaiser's aides, before the War): "It was just like the old days at Potsdam! . . . The ex-Kaiser's Lord Chamberlain met me at Utrecht with a luxurious limousine. . . .At Doorn I found if not a royal palace at least a most sumptuous residence...
...Kaiser greeted me vivaciously and seemed possessed of all his pre-War vigor. . . . His handsome white beard becomes him well, and he walks with the erect alertness of a man in good health He still retains all of his old dignity. It is ridiculous to picture him as 'the woodsman of Doom.' He is not the sort of man to chop down trees...
...generally considered to be in harmony with such "liberal Nationalists" as Herr Karl Haniel, Dusseldorf millionaire, and Prince Fuerstenberg, intimate of the onetime Kaiser. The "industrial and noble group" to which these men belong issued a manifesto supporting the Locarno Treaties last week...
...months ago the proprietor of a small Italian resort glowed at the following tribute from the daughter of Frederick Ebert, late saddle-maker-President of Germany, and her husband, Doktor Wilhelm Jaenicke, son of the Kaiser's one-time bootmaker and now an attaché of the German Foreign Office. "Your hotel is so pleasant that we have temporarily forgotten that Hindenburg is President in Germany...