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...time when America looked upon Germany with hostility and spoke much of the cruelty of Prussian militarism, he struggled to bring about a more perfect understanding and to introduce into America something of the beauty of the German civilization. When he died he left, fortunately, something more than a respected memory behind...
Leguia's agents have for years sent him weekly reports?political litmus papers of the public's reaction to his rule. Two months ago, with the successful overthrowing of Bolivia's Dictator President Hernando Siles and his strong-armed Prussian henchman, General Hans Kundt, the litmus turned red. Trouble was brewing in the southern provinces. President Leguia promptly demoted overambitious army officers, closed universities, arrested student agitators. But the trouble spread, the litmus stayed red. One Luis Sanchez Cerro, Colonel of Sappers at Arequipa near the Chilean border, declared open rebellion fortnight ago. In four days, progressing almost without bloodshed...
Shortly after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War (1871), 17-year-old Charles Leopold Hartmann left his native village of Nordheim, Alsace, and emigrated to the U. S. Of French sympathies, he did not wish to live in Alsace under German rule. At Hollister and Bakersfield, Calif, his affairs prospered so that he could make a trip back to his home town and see if he could find anyone who remembered him. Last month he set foot in Nordheim for the first time in 58 years, but everyone seemed to know who he was. Everybody he went to call...
Flush and fiery Arthur Mahraun, 39, a Prussian infantry captain in the War, formed an organization in 1919 known as the Young German Order. Its purpose: to fight Bolshevism in Germany. The failure of the Kapp putsch (revolution) of 1920 put Prussian militarists in temporary bad odor. The Young German Order expanded as a great war veteran's organization, forgot the Bolshevists, concentrated on Germany's ancient enemies: France and Poland. In 1921 red-cheeked Capt. Mahraun was busy shooting Poles in upper Silesia. Few years ago, like St. Francis of Assisi he saw a great light, reformed...
Back in Kreuznach the old Feldmar-schall rallied quickly, drank of Rhenish wine from a gargantuan flagon which Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm I drained between them on their return from the Franco-Prussian...