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...Daudet, French royalist editor: " I announced in an article in L' Action Française, that the big gun which shelled Paris during the war, supposedly from 87 miles away, was really an electric gun situated in one of the suburbs...
General Ludendorff inspected several detachments of the Fatherland League troops (unofficial royalist army). After the men had goose-stepped past him, he addressed them: " The time is soon coming when the whole German people will be called on to free our country from the foe, when we can again serve in the good cause of our old ruling house, which we formerly so loyally and honorably served...
...relative position of General Ludendorff and Hitler in relation to the reactionist movement in Germany is that while the former has his headquarters near Munich, he exercises control over the whole movement throughout Germany. He is the supreme agitator-in-chief of the royalist factions. Hitler is the strong man in Bavaria as leader of the Bavarian Nationals, who are out for a monarchical government; and he is always in close touch with Ludendorff...
...Prussian Diet, Herr Severing, Minister of the Interior, mentioned Ludendorff by name on several occasions. He charged him with what was tantamount to conspiracy against the Republic, and thereby intimated that Ludendorff's part in the reactionist activities is understood but not appreciated. The aims of the royalist organizations are delightfully naive; reestablishment of the monarchy, expulsion of the French and Belgians from the Ruhr, progressive negotiations with Poland in order to keep the front door to Russia wide open and suppression of all revolutionary elements in the country! The aims of the Government are diametrically opposed...
...Daudet, editor of the Action Française, son of the famous novelist, Alphonse Daudet, and himself no mean writer, is the energy of the Royalist movement. Charles Maurras, also an editor of the paper, distinguished by the excellence of his polemics, may be termed the moral and theoretical leader of the party. The late Marius Plateau, who was killed by a female assassin, was considered the greatest organizer of the three. It was on account of his death that the Camelots raided the offices of the radical newspapers, L'Oeuvre and the Ere Nouvelle...