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Unlike his famed grandsire, who (according to Emil Ludwig, famed Teuton biographer) until he was well past 30 was considered a "Taugenichts" (good-for-nothing), annoying his neighbors with his scandalous affairs with women, Prince Otto, if intellectually inferior, is a mild-mannered, well-behaved citizen of the Republic. Whereas the great Bismarck, while extremely sensitive, was permeated by an intense hatred of mankind, with the exception of his wife and children, who he loved and adored above everything else, despite the fact that he was three times engaged before he could find a woman who would marry...
Among the Germans was Herr Doktor Gustav Stresemann, Reich Foreign Minister and leader of the Teuton delegation, his lynx-like eyes darting about, occasionally flashing with amusement. But never did his thin lips part in a smile, nor his heavy jowls open to emit a guffaw. Noted was his extreme pallor. With him was Count Johann Heinrich von Bern-storff, onetime German Ambassador to Washington, sphinxlike, debonair, aging...
...City. Few towns have greater wealth of story than Salzburg. There, Marcus Aurelius, soldier, established Roman headquarters among the Teuton tribes and brooded on philosophy. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to music. There the ecclesiastical princes came nearest to realizing the medieval dream of an all-powerful church and a beautiful state...
Germany, restored to good standing in the International Lawn Tennis Federation, admitted to eligibility for Davis Cup competition by a two-thirds vote of her onetime enemies, announced last week that she would enter a team in this year's jousts. Tennis followers recalled the last appearance of Teuton forces in the court classic, when, late in July, 1914, the German delegation concluding their match with the victorious Australasians a few hours before the declaration of War; rushed overseas to join their Kaiser's colors in more deadly combat...
Belgium is a sturdy old gentleman of mixed Franco-Teuton stock who has hundreds of highly industrialized factories, and many more intensively cultivated farms. His foreign policy is international, easy to state, based squarely on self-interest, hard to attain. It is Peace Throughout Europe?for Belgium is the unhappy cockpit in which European wars are fought...