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...peace of Tilsit, between Napoleon and Prussia, it was laid down that the Prussian Army was not to exceed 42,000 men. Prussia kept the treaty, but men like Scharnhorst, Clausewitz, Gneisenau, Stein, Grolmann, saw a way around it. They reorganized the Army on the basis of universal military service, which meant that they would never have an army of more than 42,000 men; but as the old classes were released, new classes were called up, and an effective trained reserve was formed...
...Berlin, a man well known in Germany but little known abroad, a man feared, hated, despised, as was the sombre, inscrutable, all-powerful, Hugo Stinnes-this man was arrested on the suspicion of having defrauded the Prussian State Bank and on a charge of usury. Subsequent inves- tigation failed to substantiate the charges and the man was discharged last week...
This time, however, the President decided that sue he must. The case was to be held in Magdeburg, a commercial town in Prussian Saxony about 80 miles southwest of Berlin. A terrific campaign against, the President was waged by the Monarchist press, while the Republican press was equally active in the opposite direction...
August Belmont was born in 1853. His father, August Belmont, a Prussian Jew, came to the U. S. in the diplomatic service, became a representative of the Rothschilds (European bankers), founded the banking house, August Belmont & Co., made a vast fortune, kept a racing stable. The second August Belmont was known rather as a turfman than as a financier or railroad director. He put the horse before the locomotive. He is credited with having saved thoroughbred racing when it was at its lowest ebb in the East, after the repeal of the racing law in New York State...
...Chief Executive is a combination of President and Premier?virtually a dictator. After the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, M. Thiers, in similar circumstances, temporarily assumed the office of Chief of Executive Power in France...