Word: prussia
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...Molotov delivered his July 10 stump speech at Paris. "Without the Ruhr and Rhineland Germany cannot live," the Reds said, and the cry was echoed by their German friends. "What are they shouting about?" said most Germans, "they have already had their pound of flesh from Silesia and East Prussia...
...Prussia's last nine kings were crowned there. Philosopher Immanuel Kant had been born there, hardly ventured outside, and been buried there. Generations of German Junkers had called the city their home. Since 1255 Königsberg, more than any other German town, had stood for Prussian traditions. Last week Prussia's new masters made a clean break with tradition, renamed the city Kaliningrad...
...answer. The Hesse heirlooms, including fistfuls of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, gemmed bracelets, solid gold service pieces, a red plush autograph book first signed in 1603, and a gold-bound Bible-a wedding gift of England's Queen Victoria to her daughter and Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia-were on exhibit in the Army Public Relations director's office in Washington. The Army valued them at $3,000,000. While newsmen stared and photographed them, the Army told fantastic bits & pieces of the story of their recovery...
Born. To George Mansfield (Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia), 34, Kaiser Wilhelm II's Anglicized grandson, and the former Lady Brigid Guinness, 26, daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer ("Guinness is good for you"): their first child, a son; in Essex, England. Name: William Mansfield...
...root of their bitterness: "A caste system inherited from Frederick the Great of Prussia and the 18th-Century British Navy [which] is hardly appropriate to the U.S.," a caste system "connoted by the words 'enlisted' and 'commissioned...