Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington which formed an American Red Cross Society, lobbied actively until the Senate had ratified the Geneva Convention which made the U. S. a member of the International Red Cross. This strong-willed little New England spinster had done relief work through the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. For 23 years she was the energetic, arbitrary ruler of the American Red Cross. In 1904 a minority of its members attacked her dictatorship, forced an investigation of her poor business management, caused her, amid bitter recriminations, to resign. Last week President Hoover, his extremely distant Swiss relative, President...
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...