Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fronts." Thus Marshal Foch telegraphed his commanders. Simultaneously, at Spa (Belgium), Fildmarschall von Hindenburg sought Wilhelm II, "By the Grace of God, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, Supreme War Lord." The Feldmarschall declared: "Your Majesty, that must be said which I cannot, as a loyal Prussian, say to my King." General Groner (successor to Ludendorff) responded to a curt inquiring nod from the Kaiser: "Sire, the Army will march home in peace and order under its own generals, but not under the command of your Majesty...
Eighteen days later he abdicated as King and Emperor at Amerongen, the moat-defended chateau of Count Godard Bentinck, a Knight of the Prussian Order of St. John of which Wilhelm II was the head. Only because of his oath "to aid any Knight of St. John in distress," did Knight Bentinck shelter Knight Hohenzollern...
...founding of "Estes Park" (Col.) in 1875 caused him to be ridiculed in London as the "Yanko-maniac." As a youth he twice served the London Daily Telegraph as war correspondent (Anglo-Abyssinian and Franco-Prussian wars), shot big game with "Buffalo Bill" and many another, soldiered, yachted, steeplechased. Facially he resembled Wilhelm...
...Republic. The Fascists flayed the "Communist robbers" because they are whooping up German voters to ballot, on June 20, in a national referendum (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) which-if 20,000,000 votes are cast-will confirm and legalize the Republic's seizures of property. In the Prussian Landtag, both Communists and Fascists grunted and howled when Herr Hőpker-Aschoff, Prussian Minister of Finance, attempted an "impartial" speech as follows: "While I am personally against confiscation, I must observe that it is not fair to call the possibly forthcoming confiscatory vote of the now sovereign people...
Died. Baron Hans Hermann von Berlepsch, 83, scholar, statesman; in Berlin. He was appointed Prussian Minister of Commerce (1890) by Wilhelm II, who thereby ousted Prince Bismarck from that post (which he held in addition to the Chancellory), and gave warning that he would soon "drop the pilot...