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...Spunky little Belgium thinks that her only chance is to stand fearlessly neutral, as she did in 1914, but this time better prepared to fight. The Flemish element among King Leopold's subjects have always considered that his father, King Albert, was a fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty in any way now shares this view was entirely undisclosed last week, but in Antwerp especially pleased Flemings opined with widest smiles on their broad faces, "Our new King...
...sideburn, burnsides, mutton chops, or cōtelette was worn by Colonist Eric Olson. Famed throughout the Civil War period by the air with which General Ambrose Everett Burnside wore it, the cōtelette, when connected with the mustache, is known in Austria as the Kaiser Franz Josef bart...
...Spain, and the Reds of Greece had also begun to flourish. One night last week His Majesty was kept up late by the Greek Cabinet. The Premier, General John ("Little Moltke") Metaxas, has been frankly pro-German ever since he rated high as a young officer student at Kaiser Wilhelm's Military Academy. He has recently made important trade agreements with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, and he considers that all Europe is hurtling toward a crisis in which it must choose between forms of Communism and forms of Fascism...
...protests delivered in person by four leaders of Greek Liberal parties, left everything in the hands of General Metaxas and sailed on a Greek destroyer with the announced intention of taking a fortnight's holiday in Corfu, the island on which stands a beauteous onetime palace owned by Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Arthur Byron, refused the proposals of several eminent theatrical figures, when she married Baron Guido von Nimptsch, sad-faced, 44-year-old German aristocrat who had lost his personal fortune and was engaged in the champagne business in Manhattan. With him she returned to Germany, was presented to the Kaiser, learned that her husband was heavily in debt, was soon neglected by him. At a ball for the young Hohenzollern princes she met Count Nostitz, military attache of the Russian Embassy, divorced the Baron to marry the Count...