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...Berlin, Erich Kleiber, chief conductor of the State Opera, refused to take a five-year contract with the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. He took the advice of the Prussian Minister of Fine Arts, anticipated another successful season in Berlin...
Unheralded, unawaited, after a secret start from Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...pace the turf of Baldonnel Airdrome, inspecting and reinspecting their Junkers plane and its powerful Junkers engine. Talk in idleness led to argument. Baron von Huenefeld spoke a fiery word. Mechanic Spindler packed his bag, left, and then there were only two. No one dared ask the tight-lipped Prussian exactly...
...this book, M. Daudet considers the events leading up to the France-Prussian War. France's British and American policies, the principles of colonization, and the problems of religion and state. In brief, he finds that France, under the liberal regime has been hardly mismanaged, particularly as to things political and intellectual. He of course, goes too far. His alignment of cause and effect is usually distorted. But despite his exaggeration, exaggerations which bring a smile to the supporter of democracy but which Mr. Daudet regards as Gospel truth, there is to be found a germ of truth. Democracy...
TWELVE THOUSAND-The history of the U. S. revolution transplanted to the palace of an unscrupulous Prussian Prince (TIME, March...