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RAYMOND ARON, French historian: If you want to name a great conqueror, Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. If you want a legitimate king who was at the same time a statesman and a military commander, Frederick II of Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Who Were History's Great Leaders? | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...appears to be a dimwit, a dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire of Germany and the kingdom of Prussia. The prince once had a torrid affair with Lili Damita, an ex-wife of Errol Flynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rambling Rex | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...Until the Government of the U.S. stops its idiotic support of the Prussia of the Middle East, Israel, I intend to waste as much oil and petroleum products as it is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1973 | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...more miraculous than the one accomplished by West Germany. The end of World War II left the West with the mines and factories of the Ruhr, an industrial base that had been only partly destroyed by British and American bombs. The East got the fields and forests of northeast Prussia and Saxony. Instead of standing for the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, the East Germans joked, the initials D.D.R. stood for Der Doofe Rest-"the stupid leftovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISM: The Rise of the Other Germany | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

SHERMAN SIEGEL King of Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1973 | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

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