Word: ludendorffers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. General Erich ("Beer-Brawler") von Ludendorff, onetime (1916) Quartermaster General of the German Imperial Army; to Frau Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz. General Ludendorff was recently divorced by his wife whom he charged with smoking too many cigarets; she charged cruelty and misconduct with Dr. von Kemnitz (TIME, July 19th...
Cosima Wagner, widow of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, who first triumphed in Gemany just 50 years ago. The old woman sees onetime King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, onetime Field Marshal Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony...
...Ludendorff's Complaint. Unsettled by these developments, famed militarist-Fascist-reactionary General Erich von Ludendorff contributed an article to the ultra-Fascist Deutsche Wochenschau last week in which he bitterly declared: "The War-distress of Germans does not seem to have been sufficiently great, or to have lasted long enough. The German people do not seem to be clever enough as yet to arise and fulfill their destiny. There is spreading among Germans a spineless nonresistance to the Anglo-U. S. scheme for a pan-Dawes Europe in which Germany and perhaps France seem destined to the status...
Divorced. General Erich ("Beer-Brawler") von Ludendorff, onetime Quartermaster General of the German Imperial Army; by Frau Margarethe (Bolle), daughter of a big dairyman. She charged abusiveness; he said she smoked too many cigarets...
...Simultaneously, at Spa (Belgium), Fildmarschall von Hindenburg sought Wilhelm II, "By the Grace of God, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, Supreme War Lord." The Feldmarschall declared: "Your Majesty, that must be said which I cannot, as a loyal Prussian, say to my King." General Groner (successor to Ludendorff) responded to a curt inquiring nod from the Kaiser: "Sire, the Army will march home in peace and order under its own generals, but not under the command of your Majesty...