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Frau Mathilde von Ludendorff, wife of the once potent quartermaster general of the imperial German army: "Having been mentioned in my present husband's divorce suit last summer, having written a book about women, having delved into numerology,* I last week addressed a packed auditorium in Berlin on the subject: 'The real truth about the World War.' Said I: 'We learned that a mystic number was responsible. 1914's digits add up to 15. Fifteen means Jehovah, ergo the War was a Jewish conspiracy. The Jews organized the Sarajevo murder. Fortunately, the good old Aryan...
Great Man? Last week revealed that if Old Paul von Hindenburg is not a great man he is a man with whom greatness abides. The German people have never doubted it?not though he seems "too old"; not though Herr Erich Ludendorff was supposed to be his "real brains"; not even though it has been said that as President he has been the ponderous wooden puppet of the Nationalists...
...their sneers have grown blunted. Old Paul is not "too old" it seems, for the many duties of a President. If Herr Ludendorff supplied his "War brains," President Hindenburg still possesses enough of his own for peace times. And last week he disproved the charge that he is the tool of the Nationalists by sending to Chancellor Marx a long letter on the basis of which the Nationalists laid aside their former prejudices and joined the Government...
...Erich Ludendorff, semi-Napoleonic Prussian war lord: " 'Amazing!' commented the Press last week on the details just revealed, by Dr. Edward Hjelf, onetime Finnish Minister to Berlin, of my escape from Germany in 1918, just before the revolution. Dr. Hjelf said that I, fearing for my life, appealed to him, through the Finnish Foreign Office, for protection. He went on to state that he secured for me a diplomatic passport in the name of one Ernest Lindstrom, Counselor of the Ministry. Another Finnish diplomat, named Lindblom, had just died, but few knew it, and Dr. Hjelf, saying...
Married. General Erich von Ludendorff, 61; to Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz, at Tutzing, Bavaria. He wore his general's uniform, all his medals, his spiked helmet; so did his best man, Major Siry, ex-adjutant. Also, he gave motorcycles to the two schoolboy sons of his new wife...