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...Mourned Colonel Luke Lea of Nashville. Tenn. (who almost kidnapped Kaiser Wilhelm II from a castle at Amerongen, Holland in 1919): "The U. S. is not at war. . . . Therefore ... no American can accept the alluring adventure advanced by President Church...
This was contrary to the vague, easygoing war aims sponsored for the past eight months by the Allies. According to these the German people are being misled by a fanatic (as Woodrow Wilson said the Kaiser misled them). Let them turn Hitler out and a generous peace along the lines of European economic federation could be made. Duff Cooper's one concession to this attitude: the pint-sized German States should be "impotent but prosperous...
Last time it was Marie-Adélaïde, 20-year-old Grand Duchess. Legend persists that when the Kaiser's Army entered her country she placed 1) her automobile, 2) her person across the road by which it was advancing. Actually she did neither; she made the correct diplomatic protest and prepared to sit the occupation out. For not being more disagreeable about it she eventually lost her crown...
...bluntly put it, "was sick and tired of being brood mare to His Majesty," openly encouraged the relationship. Soon all Vienna knew of it, and approved. On the Emperor's birthday, little children would come with flowers to watch the pre-dawn passage of der alte Kaiser from his secret gate to that of "Käthi, the uncrowned Empress...
...French were mad at Marie-Adélaïde, claimed that she was pro-German because she had received the Kaiser at tea. Toward the end of the war stories about Luxembourg's high-spirited young ruler began to circulate in the Grand Duchy, and the Luxembourgeois, who were hungry and broke and sick of the Germans, believed many of them. There were riots in Luxembourg City as the Germans retreated across the Moselle and the French started to move in. Pershing beat them to it, and for a while in 1918 Luxembourg was under the protection...