Word: prussia
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While his restless wife was looking for the bluebird, Franz Joseph stayed at home, lived simply, worked hard. Without at all meaning to, he got involved in two disastrous wars, with France and Italy and with Prussia. He found out what it felt like to be a beaten general. When his only son Rudolf shot himself and his mistress rather than give her up, Franz Joseph knew what it felt like to be a failure as a father. But his love for his flighty wife never wavered. After she had left him for the last time he wrote her: "There...
...Might-were the summaries given to correspondents in Rome and Berlin of what Mussolini and Göring talked about and agreed on during the business intervals of a round of Italian fetes for General-Oberst und Frau Göring, she the plump, onetime "State Actress of Prussia," Emmy Sonnemann. It amounted to this...
Napoleon did. The Consul-for-life for the French Republic soon broke with England after the short-lived Peace of Amiens, he threatened to invade England, he declared war against Austria and won the battle of Austerlitz. Prussia declared war against him and lost the battle of Jena...
Hitherto Göring has been mentioned in official documents as "Prussian Minister-President," since one of his offices is Premier of the State of Prussia. In last week's decree he was called simply "Minister-President" and to Germans this implied that he has become Premier of all Germany rather than of Prussia only. To him Chancellor Hitler gave authority "to issue decrees and general administrative instructions" to "all administrative organs, including the highest Reich administration, all offices of the Party and its subordinate organizations or associated institutions." This was delegating so much power to Göring...
...peace proposals which German liberal politicians seriously considered. Later, in the first of Germany's numerous small putsches, Pacelli was nearly assassinated in the streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal's red hat. Two months later Cardinal Pacelli succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as the Pope's Secretary of State...