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...week before Welles arrived. Whether he had spent the week brooding on things to ask for as the price for making peace, the Welles interview was no sooner over than doubly inspired stories popped in the press-twice as extravagant as Ribbentrop's demands, more grandiose than the Kaiser's dream of the drive to the East, a tumultuous welter of claims, charges, accusations; demands for Suez, Gibraltar, Singapore; denunciations of British naval bases as pirate hideouts; insistence that Germany could no more tolerate Britain in Southeast Europe than the U. S. could tolerate an enemy seizure...
...streets for demonstration, this tired, stoop-shouldered veteran perhaps hoped he could save his job on the basis of past deeds for the Third Republic. At World War I's start M. Cachin, Left-wing Socialist editor of Humanité, rang the bells for patriotism, called Kaiser Wilhelm II "that mad dog." An expert on Italian radical movements, he later encouraged Editor Benito Mussolini, of Milan's Socialist journal Popolo d'ltalia, to plug hard for Italy's entry into the war on France's side. To Editor Cachin was assigned the delicate mission...
...Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, has written millions of words in articles, memoirs (unfinished) and private correspondence. And he has never given up hope for a Hohenzollern restoration in Germany. As late as January 1930 he was quoted as saying: "The people will call back their Kaiser." Although Wilhelm II has had to be careful to obey the no-politics order of the Dutch Government, his ambitious wife, Princess Hermine, has worked consistently for restoration. She has traveled, given parties and charity bazaars, founded a society to help German Imperial Army officers and officers' widows. She reportedly...
Since World War II began the former Kaiser's position has been ticklish. He is a good German, gets his income from Germany and has four sons and eleven grandsons in the German Army. But an Allied victory might restore monarchy to what the peace treaty left of Germany. A monarchist coup in Germany and a subsequent deal with the Allies certainly would. Gossip in The Hague has it that Princess Hermine's estate in Silesia is the centre of a monarchist movement...
...every year Oldster Bigelow goes to visit Oldster Hohenzollern at Doom. Last week, after having trouble getting a passport ("I told President Roosevelt I would ha'nt him"), Poultney Bigelow sailed from Manhattan. Before sailing he gave the press some quotes from a letter of the former Kaiser, explaining discreetly that he was not authorized to do so but was indiscreetly taking the chance. Wrote Wilhelm von Hohenzollern...