Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...councils of the world's Socialists. On his foreign comrades, Ebert seemed to have made no impression. In 1912, he was elected a member of the Reichstag. There, also, Ebert was undistinguished. He, like all his brethren, was bitterly opposed to militarism and, like them, he supported the Kaiser in what many Germans believed-and many still believe- to be a war of self-defense. Even in 1917, when he first began to agitate for peace, he was little more than a political nonentity and yet, within 18 months, this "square-shouldered chunky man" was to become the first...
...King is a Regent, Admiral Horthy. His powers are limited mainly to exercising the royal functions without the effective power of vetoing legislation. Just for whom he is Regent is a problem that most Hungarians shirk; some say for himself; some say for Prince Otto, oldest son of Kaiser Karl; some say for a King who is yet to be elected. The problem is, however, satisfactorily settled for the time being by electing Yankee Jeremiah Smith as financial king-a Yankee at the Court of the Habsburgs or, in the parlance of jazz, a Yankee-doodle doing...
Thus did the Krcus-Zeitung, ultra-Monarchist journal of Berlin, celebrate ex-Kaiser Wilhelm's 66th birthday...
...filled with partisan wranglings and Imperial and Republican flags. Monarchists fierily championed the ex-Kaiser or else sadly shook their heads and sighed for "the old days." The Left Parties attacked the ex-Kaiser and his "willing tool" the Luther Government. Many broken heads resulted from many brawls...
...those Monarchists who gloomed about the Kaiser of Doom's melancholy condition, the Volkeszeitung, Socialist journal, spoke of "Laughing Wilhelm in his park at Doom...