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...damage case in a San Francisco court Henry W. Moltke, taxicab driver, took the stand. In jest the judge asked if the witness were kin to the late great Prussian general, Helmuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke. Replied the witness: "I am his grandson, your Honor. . . . Better a live taxicab driver than a dead general...
When on May n, 1871, Ferdinand Foch, a young student at the Jesuit College of St. Clement's at Metz, heard the classroom windows rattle to the guns' announcement that the city was now German, the nightmare of the Franco-Prussian War turned into a dream of revanche. He fed the dream with legends of Napoleon; his religious training gave him the very highest sanctions. From the Polytechnique he pushed through the Ecole d'Application, the Cavalry School at Saumur, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry...
...Federal Governments attitude toward Hitler was so uncompromising that he was forbidden to make a transatlantic wireless talk on Dec. 11, and the Prussian Government was reported to have threatened him with expulsion if he persisted in using Berlin as a base for his foreign propaganda. The Fascist leader left the national capital on Dec. 14, not, however, altogether because of the hostiltiy of the Bruening regime. It appears that he has been having difficulty with Paul Joseph Goebbels and Gregor Strasser, his deputies in Northern Germany, who do not approve of the "legal" methods by which their chief proposes...
Shortly after the Franco-Prussian war, in which he had shrewdly enriched himself by selling foodstuffs to the French, a formidable British wholesale grocer named John Johnston found himself surprisingly afflicted with dyspepsia. Disgusted by the remedies then in vogue, he chose to make a new one, out of beef. Bovril, in its squat, liquorish bottles, is now capitalized for ?3,000,000, has ?6,000,000 of assets including 1,300,000 acres of cattleland in the Argentine and 9,000,000 acres in Australia, where "Bovril" is the slang equivalent for applesauce or baloney. Last week, Bovril...
Correspondents thought it likely that canny Chancellor Bruning would accede. Hitlerites in his Cabinet could not well work for his overthrow. Meanwhile Hitler tacticians, realizing that they had lost once again, prepared to make the best of things by entering the Prussian State elections, still due in May, as champions of a party which gave up an easy victory for the good of the State...