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...German Socialist Unity Party, "Father Unity" (as his comrades called him) was formally inaugurated as president of the new Red puppet republic in Germany's Russian zone. Pieck, a worker's son, watched a torchlight parade of 300,000 Berliners (complete with fireworks, goose step and Prussian military marches), inspected the Communist-trained "people's police." Berliners compared the show to the one the Nazis staged when Hitler seized power in 1933. Two days after the fireworks came the greatest honor of all: a personal letter from Joseph Stalin...
...chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...
...wrote to Kaiser Wilhelm at his postwar refuge in Holland. In reply Weston received a packet of propaganda which said that the Kaiser not only had not started the war, he hadn't even lost it. This line of reasoning failed to impress Weston, but the Prussian royal arms on the Kaiser's letterhead did. That started him off on heraldry...
...university, promoted the revival of an annual trade fair, set up a model settlement for workers. He had a natural flair for politics. "When I sat in the city hall in Cologne," Adenauer once said, "I used to think to myself: the Roman Empire went down, Bismarck's Prussian dream collapsed and now Kaiser Wilhelm's Reich has been destroyed. But this old city of Cologne lives on. It has outlasted them all, and it is worth all one's energies to protect and cherish...
Died. Franz von Rintelen, 72, World War I master saboteur and head of the German spy network operating from New York; in London. Bald, dashing Prussian Captain von Rintelen came to the U.S. in 1915 with $500,000 and instructions to prevent munitions from reaching the Allies. He lost much of the money playing the stockmarket, but managed to carry out his orders: 32 Allied ships were damaged or sunk when incendiary time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen...