Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness at a joint meeting of the German and Prussian cabinets, called to decide whether the Reich would extend to East Prussia, this year, financial aid totaling 72,000,000 gold marks. . . . Experts had displayed to the joint cabinets statistics proving that East Prussia, handicapped by isolation, can; not prosper unless temporarily subsidized. The cabinets, impressed, but faced with a necessity...
...Prittwitz, as he likes to be known, is 44 years old, scion of an old Prussian family, the son of Colonel Max von Prittwitz...
...would like some informed person to tell me the meaning, for example, of the formal official announcement of the Federal Department of State that it has approved the private refunding debt proposals of the French Government in the U. S., together with a Prussian and Polish loan totalling...
...recalls that after the Franco-Prussian War the statue of Alsace in the Place de la Concorde was veiled in black, but France had been the loser, while Belgium in 1918 was one of the conquering nations. Belgium's memory is perhaps so vivid she, like the British general in the Revolutionary War, would cease to exist after another such victory. It is nevertheless a novelty in ante-bellum relations to find the conquered nation attempting to bury the hatchet, while the conqueror earnestly digs it up again. And even if a complete acknowledgement be made of the justification...
...enemy plane, wings his way toward his own camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized. With volleys of oaths bursting from his mouth and volleys of bullets coursing from his gun, Powell shoots down the comrade whom...