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...first time Wythe Williams went to Europe he watched Kaiser Wilhelm II and Theodore Roosevelt bury Edward VII. Wythe Williams was a reporter on vacation from the New York World. After the funeral, everybody went home but Wythe Williams. He worked in Europe for the next 25 years. During that time he called Georges Clemenceau "a terrible old man" and was thanked by the Tiger of France for "having the nerve to say such things"; he scooped the world on the substitution of Nivelle for Joffre as the French Army's Commander-in-Chief; he scooped it again...
Born. To Crown Prince Paul of Greece, 36, younger brother of King George, and his wife, Princess Margaritas, 21, granddaughter of the former Kaiser: a daughter, their first child; in Athens...
Britain is a sea power. The Kaiser would not sign a treaty giving Britain undisputed naval supremacy over Germany, but the Führer signed (and probably is not stupid enough to break) the treaty under which his navy is restricted to 35% of Mother England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended...
...what Britain and France might have to pay throughout the world if they fought- even if they won-he also could plainly see on the map Adolf Hitler's chosen path via Czechoslovakia at least as far as Turkey (see p. 23), with echoes from the past of Kaiser Wilhelm's dream of an axis from "Berlin to Bagdad." In its relative size on the map of trouble this Nazi threat has its place. So have portions of Africa about which there may soon be attempted trading. *Obviously if Nazis will not trade, if experience shows a valid...
Tactful Dr. Funk proclaimed at a Turkish banquet last week: "The principal desire of Germany is establishment of the closest possible cooperation among the nations-thus leading to their Welfare, Peace and Happiness." This was a different note indeed from Kaiser Wilhelm II's bluster about "Berlin to Bagdad" and the "Drang nach Osten" or German "pressure toward the East." Anxious to preserve the new amenities between Germany and Britain established at Munich, yet anxious, too, to cash in on Germany's freshly won kudos, Dr. Funk opened as quietly as possible a Turkish credit with Germany...