Word: prussia
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...mistaken, or didn't ministers use to preach the Gospel from their pulpits on Sunday morning? Apparently Mr. Powell feels that the denunciation and abasement of his House Education and Labor Committee as "racists" is more important than God's word. MARK J. HARDCASTLE King of Prussia...
Married. Prince Michael of Prussia. 26, great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II; and Jutta Joren, 24. a secretary he met in Manhattan while training as a Pan American Airways sales representative; in a civil ceremony in Dusseldorf, to be followed this week by a Lutheran ceremony at the Hohenzollern family estates near Bremen...
...reference to a Napoleonic parallel involving Charles de Gaulle [July 1] is intriguing. On June 25, 1807, almost 159 years ago to the day that De Gaulle met with the chiefs of the Soviet government, Czar Alexander I of Russia met with Emperor Napoleon of France at Tilsit in Prussia. They embraced; they exchanged decorations and pledges of friendship. Like De Gaulle, Alexander hoped to play the role of peacemaker and to divide the European continent between Russia and France. Yet by 1812 the Emperor was sleeping in the Kremlin in a burning Moscow. I wonder whether De Gaulle...
...Gaulle-there is a new view of Europe burgeoning in Washington. Last week ex-White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy advocated before the Fulbright committee that West Germany accept the Oder-Neisse frontier with Poland and renounce its claims to Heimatsrecht in the lost territories of Silesia and East Prussia. His sentiments were reinforced by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in testimony last week on Capitol Hill. In reply to a question by Bobby Kennedy, McNamara gave hopeful credence to a rumor that had originated in Berlin, to the effect that the Russians might withdraw five of their 20 divisions in return...
...Apologies. A native of East Prussia (now part of Poland) and a wartime student in a Berlin Jesuit Gymnasium, Barzel soon impressed his fellow Ministers with his command of his portfolio. He broadcast regularly to East Germany and negotiated the first ransom arrangements for East German prisoners. Much of his interest in reunification dates from that time, but his proposals last week served a more immediate purpose as well. They were bannered on Page One of every major West German newspaper and were the topic of furious debate throughout the nation. A reporter in Washington asked Barzel, shortly after...