Word: prussianized
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Nine days will test these promises. Meanwhile pledges of loyalty to the Leader poured in upon Herr Hitler from storm commanders in southern, western and northern Germany-disloyalty being confined to the east. In Berlin astute, well-informed Councilor Goerke of the Prussian Political Police said...
...delayed adopting for years. But the budget is also a Hindenburg budget. It provides loans and relief for the farmers of East Prussia, that "hard luck province" cut off from the rest of Germany by the Polish Corridor which enjoys the particular sympathy of Old Paul, himself a Prussian...
German newspapers are reluctant to bless the "violation of constitutional rights," but in general approve the measure as expedient. As a matter of fact, the Metternich spirit lacks its old rigor and the "curtailment of civil liberty" probably will impose little restraint in practice. The official Prussian press has been careful to explain that there would be no interference with orderly meetings and that the decree is directed only against abuses...
...Ecole Polytechnique, government military school at Paris. The professor of French composition, trembling with emotion, scrawled on the blackboard: "Develop this thought of Kléber's:? 'It is essential that the young train their faculties.' " Through the open window Student Ferdinand Foch heard the distant booming of Prussian cannon. He never forgot that afternoon...
...objection will undoubtedly center on the assertion that the union is in contravention of Article 82 of the Treaty of Versailles, but this ground is unsound in view of the fact that both countries retain their sovereighty and separate political entity. However, many Germans and Austrians, remembering how the Prussian customs union helped to unite Germany politically into the German Empire, now hail this alliance as the first step toward a political union in the future; but such an "Anschluss" would need the consent of the League of Nations, which France and her satellites would almost certainly block...