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...colonel did not plan to attend the coronation, but, he added, "... I have some lively memories of British royal families. I recall that once the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, patted me on the head when I was a little boy visiting Germany. The Prince was with the Kaiser . . . The Prince said to me, 'There's a nice little British boy,' because he noticed I was wearing a sailor's hat bearing the initials H.M.S. 'No, sir, American,' I said. And both the Prince and the Kaiser laughed. That...
...durable as the phoenix. In the '20s he built a Midwest empire of steel, rubber and iron ore, only to lose control of it during the Depression. Slowly he built another, only to see it threatened three years ago, when his Otis & Co. walked out of a Kaiser-Frazer stockselling agreement, and his ex-friend Henry Kaiser won $3,000,000 in judgments (TIME, July 16, 1951). Otis filed in bankruptcy, and Kaiser began hunting its assets like a sheriff waving the mortgage. But four months ago the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an appeals-court ruling that...
Eaton not only won his fight with Kaiser, but all his investments have thrived. Among his holdings...
...half a century Germany's diplomats and big industrialists, deep in Drang nach Osten (Drive to the East), talked of a Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. Kaiser Wilhelm II rode through the sweltering streets of Damascus one day in 1898 to tell the citizens that Moslems "may rest assured that at all times the German Emperor will be their friend." Hitler took up where Wilhelm II left off: by the time the Nazis invaded Russia, Germany was dominating the markets of Turkey and Iran...
...Amarillo, Texas, Princess Cecilia of Prussia, 35, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm, renounced her title, took her U.S.-citizenship oath and became plain Mrs. Clyde Harris, wife of an interior decorator and former Army captain whom she married in Germany...