Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many interesting medals received by President Eliot after his resignation in 1909 may also be seen. He was given the Order of the Crown of Italy by the King of Italy, the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan, the Order of the Crown of Prussia by the German Emperor, the Order of St. Sava by the King of the Serbs, Creates, and Slovenes, the Legion of Honor by the President of the French Republic, and the Order of the Crown by the King of the Belgians...
...18th Century, when the French Constituent Assembly attacked the same problem, it split the old French provinces into new arbitrary departments, named for rivers and mountains. Last week Adolf Hitler hinted that the old borders of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, were to be broken down. Rather than imitate France, he suggested that the new German states might be bounded by the territories of the Early Germanic tribes. Besides Goths, Frisians and Swabians, one of the most important German tribes were the Burgundians. A Nazi Burgundy seemed unlikely...
Chafing with spleen General Göring filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...
...come as Chief of the Police of Prussia!" he shouted, banging the Chancellor's door behind him. What more General GÖring said remained an exciting secret last week, but he was understood to have urged use of the full power of Prussia's police and Storm Troops to "break" pastors who do not conform to Nazification of the Church...
...General Göring," reported Der Tag, "President von Hindenburg stressed the historical importance of Prussia. The aged President will not permit his beloved Prussia, which for nearly half a century was the backbone of the German Empire, to be carved up into districts without a fight...