Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevailing nonchalance of Washingtonians (D. C.) was disturbed by the discovery that 20,000 of their children were being supplied with hand-me-down textbooks in history and geography, which described Germany as an Empire surmounted by the Kaiser, and St. Petersburg as the home of Tsar Nicholas, the Tsarina and Tsarevitch. The schools of Washington are, of course, dependent upon Congress for guidance and nurture, and it appears that that busy body has been neglectful. Some educators are, however, well pleased. An opportunity is afforded them to convince their pupils that all that is written-even in textbooks...
...think it extraordinary," said the ex-Kaiser with a comic grimace, "that people always make stories about junkers who wish to carry off the Crown Prince by boat or airplane...
...About Kaiser Wilhelm II. "At Berlin we dined one night with the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. The ex-Emperor of Germany was about 18 months old, and his father himself fetched him down after dinner to show him to Mamma (Lady Westmoreland). He was a pretty little fellow, although backward in walking, and with his arm limp and helpless; but they were very proud...
Council for the editor of the Post called as witnesses Prince Max von Baden, last Chancellor under the Kaiser; General Hoffman, Chief of Staff to Ludendorff; Field Marshal Konrad von Hötzendorff, Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian Imperial Army; many other prominent military...
...Deutsche Wochenzeitung, described as an obscure German weekly periodical published in Holland, gives an account of an interview given by the ex-Kaiser of Germany at Doom to the editor. The ex-Kaiser explained away all the mysteries of his doings. Excerpts...