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Courage. Kurt Schumacher had worked fiercely all his life, and always in opposition. The only son of a Prussian civil servant in the fortress town of Kulm (now part of Red Poland), he joined the Kaiser's army in 1914; six months later, his right arm was severed at the shoulder by a Russian machine-gun burst. He became an ardent Socialist, railing unheard at the "Kaiser's war." By the time he could get anyone to listen, as a brash Socialist Deputy in the moribund Weimar Republic, the enemy was Hitler. Schumacher told Goebbels...
...sixth child and only son of a Prussian civil servant, Kurt Schumacher was born in the town of Kulm on the Vistula. It is now a part of Poland-to Schumacher a constant reminder of Germany's dismemberment in two wars. He went into the Kaiser's army in the summer of 1914, but in less than six months his soldiering was over, his arm gone. In an army hospital, he taught himself in two weeks to write lefthanded. Disgusted with "the Kaiser's war," he turned to Socialism, read Marx and was impressed, read Lenin...
Bismarck, Not Hitler. In the beginning, Reinold von Thadden's world and his church were comfortably unified. His family were old East Prussian nobility with a strong religious tradition. His great-randfather made the family estate a famous center of pietism-at 31, a hitherto skeptical young Otto von Bismarck prayed for the first time in 15 years during a visit there. Reinold fell into the family tradition, became a lay leader of the Pomeranian state church...
...take time: after all, Monsieur Ducreux was a member of the executive committee of Herriot's own Radical Socialist Party. Herriot started off in style: he limned the pastoral beauties of the Vosges countryside where Ducreux came from, and recalled its people's heroism during the Franco-Prussian War. But then, after effusive condolences to the deputy's family, he unexpectedly finished. The house sat down with murmurs of relief; the eulogy had been mercifully short...
...Parliament. Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822, he stiffened the Grand Alliance that defeated Napoleon. At the Congress of Vienna, which laid the foundations for a hundred years of Pax Britannica, he put on a classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following the Napoleonic wars, the neglected veterans of Waterloo and the martyrs of Peterloo (hundreds of hungry English weavers shot down by the militia for protesting their...