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...young captain on the bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern had ambitions to match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich Raeder, promoted to chief of staff in the Kaiser's brand-new cruiser squadrons, had a brief taste of glory in the battles of Doggerbank and Jutland (in which the British were powerfully mauled), but at war's end the barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years...
...first approach was to envelop himself in clouds of unbridled imagination. He was the Kaiser, he was a dashing young prince, he was even a lover, he was anything he could or would think of. Occasionally, costumes that his godfather supplied gave material wings for these flights of fancy...
...select group of four U.S. aluminum producers-Alcoa, Reynolds Metals, Kaiser and Anaconda-last week was joined by a fifth, the Harvey Machine Co. of Torrance, Calif. President Leo Harvey, who claims to be the biggest independent U.S. aluminum fabricator and has long wanted to produce his own raw material, signed a deal with the Government to build a $65 million, 54,000-ton-a-year aluminum plant at The Dalles...
...among U.S. prisoners since the Revolutionary War. During the Civil War, 14% of the Union's P.W.s died in Confederate captivity, including 26% of the 49,485 prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. During World War I, 4,120 U.S. soldiers were captured, but only 147 died in the German Kaiser's prison camps. During World War II, the toll was 14,090 out of 129,701 U.S. prisoners -a cruel 10.9%; 10,031 out of 26,943 U.S. Army and Air Force prisoners died in the hands of the Japanese-37%-while only...
Mann himself was a product of the old European order and tradition. He had been born to a life of large and splendid ease in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, one of the historic free cities of North Germany. When he was born, Wilhelm I was Kaiser, Bismarck was Chancellor; his father, a prosperous merchant, had been Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck. His mother was the daughter of a German planter in South America who married a Portuguese Creole. Mann studied literature in Munich, journeyed to Rome, and at 25 had a stupendous success with...