Word: prussian
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...only indirectly a result of its journalism. The bulk of the company's revenues, and profits, predicted to reach $98 million for 1984, come from a high-tech version of the original business started by Paul Julius Reuter in 1850: the deli very of financial news between the Prussian town of Aachen and Brussels by carrier pigeon. Reuters has become a prime worldwide supplier, with clients in 112 countries, of electronically transmitted, up-to-the-minute data about currency exchange rates, commodity prices, stocks, bonds, even the availability of tanker space. As the operation grew more successful, its owners...
...Gaulle appointed himself guardian of that greatness at an early age. His father had fought in the Franco-Prussian War, and Charles grew up in Lille and Paris during the period of Prussian pre-eminence following France's loss. Determined to help restore la gloire, he won admission to the prestigious St.-Cyr military academy, where he stood out for his arrogance and scholarship as well as for his height (6 ft. 5 in.). As an officer in the late 1920s, he insisted on wearing his beret tilted unconventionally to the right, and championed the superiority of tanks...
...detailed, indispensable biography shows some of the reasons for Kleist's continuing fascination, and for his persistent obscurity. Maass describes Kleist's acquiring his skill, stage by stage, almost as if it were a fatal disease. Young Heinrich was by heritage the "right stuff' of which Prussian officers were made. There had been 18 generals in his family. At 15 he joined the King's Guards Regiment. Seven years later, he resigned his commission, apparently intending to take up an equally conventional career as a model civil servant. The youth devised a program of Knowledge, Fervor...
...sent a report of what took place to Premier Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck edited this account to make the King appear insulting toward the diplomat and then released his version to the press. As he had hoped, the outraged French attacked Germany, enabling Bismarck to embark on the Franco-Prussian War, which he decisively won. Governmental forgery goes on, in many guises and places. The practices of the Soviet Union's KGB have made the term disinformation familiar to millions. During the late 1960s, the FBI'S attempts to sow dissent among radical and antiwar groups...
Versailles suffered other indignities. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the fabled Hall of Mirrors was turned into an infirmary by the invaders; the French avenged the German insult in 1919, when the Allied leaders gathered in the same hall to sign the treaty ending World War I. But by then the palace had been gutted, and the gardens were shabby and overgrown. Visiting the grounds in 1923, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was appalled at the neglect and donated $100,000 for restoration, which included a new roof for the Hall of Mirrors...