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...have been the basic cause, the accessories before the fact were incapacity, irresponsibility. As an eyewitness to Germany's fatal mistakes, Author Wolff lists many. She sacrificed England's all-important neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with any sensible, straightforward policy. Author Wolff quotes some of the revealing marginalia the Kaiser was fond of jotting on state papers ("Bosh!" "What does this civilian know about it!" "Poltroon!" "Idiocy!"), gives several instances when his angry orders, if carried out, would have...
...Official Gazette, not immediately issued last week but finally released, was a new Cabinet decree law fully as basic as anything in the so-called new Constitution. It was signed by Herr Hitler and the War Minister, General Werner von Blomberg. It annuls a regulation which has stood since Kaiser Wilhelm provided on March 19, 1914 that, in principle, the German Army shall not be used for police purposes against German citizens. The new Hitler-Blomberg decree fatefully empowers the Army to take German law & order into its hands, the Realmleader still being supreme commander of the Army, Navy...
...Therefore, be it resolved that this Committee, on behalf of the Freshmen who attended these reviews, does hereby thank Professors Lamb, Hocking, and Wheldon for their co-operation and Messrs. MacDougall, Kaiser, Cheedle, and Taylor, who devoted their time and energy to conduct these reviews...
...Rudyard Kipling briefly revisited New York and nearly died there of pneumonia, both Kaiser Wilhelm II and Queen Victoria asking to be kept informed. His more spiteful enemies said that during this illness "the writer died although the man recovered." One critic yearned publicly for the time "when the rudyards cease from kipling." But it was not to come for 37 years. During the World War that which had been Imperial England was bled until there were such things as a Labor Cabinet, a British General Strike, a Depression and 11,000,000 British votes for the League of Nations...
...sharp, insinuating questions. One of the founders of the American Legion, the son of the late great Speaker of the House knew War at first hand. Before the Committee for settlement was a scandalous question: Should J. Pierpont Morgan be hated as a warmonger second only to Kaiser Wilhelm? Did U. S. blood on the fields of France save his financial skin...