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...George, who hides his German light under a bushel and has changed his name to Windsor, was not there. Neither were any of his sons. But His Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel helmet. Two most exalted shadows came in person. They were mystic, crystal-gazing Ferdinand, a Coburg who abdicated as Tsar of Bulgaria in favor of his son (the present Tsar Boris) and grim, old Rupprecht...
While the German Empire lasted, its national anthem (sung to the same music as Britain's "God Save the King") was Heil dir im Siege skranz-"Hail thou whose victor's crown safeguards thy realm's re- nown; all hail to thee [i.e. the Kaiser]!" After the Fatherland became a Republic, its Socialist first President, Friedrich Ebert...
...that time no united Germany or reich existed, and the words were unquestionably an appeal to the Germanic peoples to place "[united] Germany above all [other ideals], above all in the World!" After Bismarck achieved the ideal of unity by creating the German Empire, many of the Kaiser's subjects sang the old song in the sense of "Germany, Germany above all [other lands], above all in the World!" Some German pacifists object as strongly to Deutschland, Deutschland iiber Alles as do U. S. pacifists to "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting...
While in Doorn, Holland, this summer, a CRIMSON reporter attempted to see the exiled Wilhelm II for an interview, but His Majesty repeatedly refused to grant an interview. The reporter was finally forced to resort to correspondence. In one instance the Kaiser's opinion of the League of Nations was asked. The following vitriolic message was the answer...
Self-confident, ambitious, the young promoter found no financial scheme too big. With his potent friend Publisher Luke Lea of the Nashville Tennessean (the man who tried to kidnap the Kaiser from Holland as a Christmas present...