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Said Hermine, wife of ex-Kaiser "Bill," visiting relatives in Griez (near Leipzig): "My husband has no plans to join me in Germany. He is longing to return to the Fatherland, but thinks there is no chance to do so. I think likewise." Their thoughts were unaccompanied by any outside protest...
...morning last week Halle awoke to find the streets thick with flags and steel helmets. Hundreds of Monarchists marched to strains of martial music. There were Prince Oskar, son of Kaiser "Bill," Generals Ludendorff, von Heeringen, von Francois, Hutier, Admiral Schroeder and many another Monarchy...
...where the former Imperial Court held sway, princes of the blood royal, princes not of the royal blood, and strings of the lesser nobility, all with high sounding titles, went to the polls to record their votes. The election officials, good Republicans, "bowed and scraped" as each of the Kaiser's men and women recorded his or her vote...
...Kaiser, who has been languishing at Doörn in Holland since a certain memorable event in 1918, was reported to be "bored with life." To relieve his boredom singers sing German songs to him. Said Herr Bruno Voelcker, chanteur, after a recent visit to Doörn: "The Kaiser looks as stately as ever. His beard and moustache are white...
...visitors of royal rank. After speeches by members of the Cabinet, Nationalist throngs sang Deutschland Ober Alles. A forest of flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced girls who struck up the Communist Internationale in competition with the blare of the Reischswehr bands...