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Bearded Germanophile Poultney Bigelow, 84, good friend and biographer of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, after a visit to Germany but not to his 81-year-old friend at Doom, returned to the U. S., exclaimed: "I'm so homesick, I can't see straight...
...Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs and the music of gunfire...
...Philadelphia Museum is a great central hall with two wide, L-shaped wings. The late, great Dr. Wilhelm von Bode, director of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum, devised the scheme of composite galleries or period rooms to display collections of "the finest things from all the arts and all periods...
Born. To Prince Louis Ferdinand, grandson of former Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the former Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, daughter of the late Pretender Cyril: their second son; in Berlin. They honeymooned...
...simply record that the ex-Kaiser stated the opinion that if the Western European nations had any sense they would patch up a peace of some kind and band together to resist the westward march of Bolshevism from Russia. We record, too, our conviction that the ex-Kaiser, for once in a long and none too brilliant life, made a profoundly wise remark...