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...Wilhelm Marx, 60 years of age, has had a seat in the Reichstag for twelve years. Formerly he was a member of the Prussian Diet. He is, at present, leader of the Catholic Party, National head of the Catholic School Association and a judge in Cologne...
...succeeded by his son as George V of Hanover. In 1866, as one of the consequences of the Austro-Prussian War, Hanover was annexed by Prussia and King George was deposed. Twelve years later he died and was succeeded by his son, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who, however, still claimed and was generally known by the British title of Duke of Cumberland. This man, a great-grandson of George III of Britain, second cousin once removed of King George V and second cousin of Queen Mary, is the gentleman who was proud to hold a British...
...settle down and farm his estate at Oels, since it is very much in his interest to do so; but, with reactionism in the ascendency, he is likely to have a hard time in maintaining a neutral attitude. Moreover, it was reported with some veracity that if the Prussian and Imperial Crowns were offered to him, he would be the last man to refuse them...
...even granting that France has had such a purpose, it cannot be held that she has, entirely by her own efforts, created and fostered the movement. Although the Rhineland may be fundamentally German, as Mr. Jentsch says, she has always been far from thoroughly Prussian. In fact until within little more than a half century all of the German states formed merely a loose confederacy of semi-feudal governments. Feuds and jealousies were rife between them and only a powerful and autocratic central government was able finally to bind them into a nation. Hence a separate state in the Rhineland...
...that not one foot of the Reich will under any condition be coded to the foe and that the astivities of the Separatists are merely treasonable outbursts fostered by the French, it is an undeniable fact that the Separatist movement is growing. Never emotionally or intellectually akin to the Prussian, the Rhinelander is now further impelled toward "separatism" by the chance of freeing himself from a government which he feels has misunderstood his needs and from an oppressive burden of taxation and of reparations which is sure to be the lot of Germany for the next generation at least...