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...Victorian boy whose father wanted him to become a great statesman. He was sent to Rugby, to aristocratic Trinity College, Cambridge. Then, in order that he might meet statesmen who really mattered, he went to Germany. He became almost intimate with Bismarck, a great feat for a stripling. The Kaiser himself was reported to have listened without displeasure to the conversation of young Austen Chamberlain...
Sued for Divorce. By Prince Eitel Friederich, 51, second son of Kaiser Wilhelm II; Princess Sophie Charlotte, 47, daughter of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. He alleged that "her continual efforts to secure employment in the motion picture industry have become a source of humiliation to the House of Hohenzollern." She promptly filed a counter suit accusing him of degeneracy. It was recalled that she married him in 1906, virtually at the command of the Kaiser, who wished to bring the vast wealth of the Oldenburgs within the Hohenzollern family. Should the divorce be granted she is expected to marry...
...Hochs!" were shouted when old Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg entered the onetime "Kaiser Box" in the German Reichstag and sat down with republican democracy in civilian attire. Attentive witnesses reported that the onetime Feldmarschal fidgeted inattentively as Chancellor Wilhelm Marx loquaciously conveyed to him "the good wishes of the Republic...
Born. To Princess Mafalda, 23, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and wife of Prince Philip of Hesse, nephew of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm; a son, at Racconigi, Italy...
...which they had failed to do. The interviews he had obtained were "incidental," simply the result of his "reportorial instinct." (The visiting reporters nodded, impressed.) He had flown about Europe, seeing Lloyd George in England, Briand and Caillaux in France, Mussolini in Italy, Pilsudski in Poland, and the onetime Kaiser himself at Doom. The one-time Kaiser had been bitter towards the U. S., had blamed General Pershing (with whom Publisher Vanderbilt had had the pleasure of traveling part way) for ending the War. . . . Pilsudski, the pugnacious Pole, had looked menacing to Russia and Germany. . . . France might soon have...