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...general bitterness, most of the delegations had also brought their own spies. Baron Hager, president of the Austrian Oberste Polizei und Censur Hofstelle, sent secret reports daily to Emperor Francis. Sample: "The Emperor of Russia went out at 7 p.m. . . . to visit the Princess Thurn and Taxis. Every morning a large block of ice is brought to the Emperor with which he washes his face. . . . The British Mission, owing to excessive caution, has engaged two housemaids on its own. Before I can get at [their] waste paper ... I must see whether I can count on these two women...
Firm Backing. Still Niehoff fought on, his resolute face to his foe, his sensitive back to the implacable figure of Ernst Streckenbach, commanding the Nazi 55 Polizei Truppen in Breslau. The Nazis wanted this town held, to tie down the Soviet assault armies yet a few days more, to deny the Russians a good communications hub. They wanted Breslau held to raise the German spirit...
Whether fear of being crushed before the ever-increasing tide of spring automobilists or a desire to stand above the rest of Cambridge society moved the polizei to this action will never be discovered; the fact remains that the Blue at present stands above the Crimson...
Documents and other evidence thus collected enabled the Polizei to announce proudly that they had nipped a most elaborate Monarchist Putsch. "Exhibit A" was a large autographed portrait of Wilhelm of Doorn, with a note of glowing encouragement attached...
Then bespangled officials decided that such half measures were of no avail. They turned the cake over to a neighboring War orphanage. When the last orphan had eaten the last crumb without ill effect, the polizei became convinced that no attempt had been made on the life of William Hohenzollern...