Word: silesia
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...German Government instructed its Amsterdam Consul to issue a visa to former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, if he applied for one. The ex-Crown Princess Cecilie sent the following telegram to her children at Oels in Upper Silesia: " Happy tidings. Father is coming home...
...From the first moment Stinnes appeared in Upper Silesia I used all available measures to restrict him. He secured large blocks of shares in the Kattawitz Metallurgical Trust, which possessed mines and iron factories, and an interest in the Bismarck mines, and one of the finest steel fabricating plants in Europe...
...Autumn meeting of the Polish Parliament I intend to go further and press the bill which the Ministry already has approved providing that every corporation in Polish Silesia must have its headquarters in Poland and hold annual meetings there. . . . Poland needs foreign money and needs aid, but we have no desire to exchange our rights to the free political direction of our own house for Stinnes' money...
...foothold in Silesia for Hugo Stinnes...
...nine years. All these years living in my trunk. A child can understand that I am not living here for pleasure. Sooner or later the day must come when I shall return to Germany. I ask only to live like an ordinary citizen on my large estate in-Silesia and in the midst of my family. The Socialist Government wanted to seize that estate, but I am sure that I shall win my suit...