Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civil war and thinking she was winning the World War, vetoed any cooperation with England. Mannerheim resigned in a huff and the newly elected Regent, Per Svinhufvud, asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. The Kaiser proposed his brother-in-law, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, who was promptly elected by the Finnish Diet. Next thing the Finns knew, the Allies had won the war and Finland was caught with its pants down. The only man who could get them up was Mannerheim...
...principles that had caused him to quit the previous May were accepted by the group in power: 1) no rapprochement with Germany; 2) retention of a strong Finnish Army. Mannerheim went to London and Paris, dickered for recognition. When he returned to Helsinki, Regent Svinhufvud resigned, Prince Friedrich Karl renounced his right to the throne, and Mannerheim became Regent of Finland...
...German people," said a Foreign Office official to him.† Answered Mr. Villard: "I have a far higher opinion of the German people than your government has. ... I am willing to believe that they can be trusted with the truth, and your government is not." When Dr. Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State in Bohemia-Moravia, told him that every German was behind Führer Adolf Hitler, Mr. Villard promptly disagreed, said he had met many anti-Nazi Germans...
...explanation of Niemöller's militancy was offered by lank, twinkling-eyed Karl Barth, Swiss-born theologian who greatly influenced the Confessional group before his exile from Germany. Barth, famed for his gloomy view (lately modified) that man can do little here below, slyly ascribed Niemöller's position to Original Sin-man's heritage from Adam. Wrote Barth to the Anglican Bishop of Chichester, in a letter which found its way into a Rotterdam newspaper last week...
...Lady music teachers . . . wrecked my technic and debauched my taste." He still likes to pound the piano but, "born with an intense distaste for vocal music ... to this day think of even the most gifted Wagnerian soprano as no more than a blimp fitted with a calliope." As for Karl Czerny, standard nightmare of every child's piano lessons: "So late as 1930, being in Vienna, I visited and desecrated his grave...