Word: tirpitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardships and eventual victory of the conquered Belgians. Hero was the original Tarzan, big, soft-looking Elmo Lincoln, playing a blacksmith into whose custody the captured Kaiser (Rupert Julian) was given after the War. The late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chaney played walrus-whiskered Admiral von Tirpitz, as mild-looking a Santa Claus as ever ordered an ocean liner spurlos versenkt (sunk without trace...
...throne, and Princess Margaret Rose, 8, waved handkerchiefs. An obsequious bevy of Ministers, Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare, lined up to say goodby. The great white liner provided for the King's conveyance-Canadian Pacific's 25-year-old Empress of Australia, formerly the German Tirpitz-the spoils of a victorious war, flew the white ensign of the Royal Navy, the yellow-&-red Admiralty flag, the red, blue & gold royal standard bearing the arms of the United Kingdom...
...George and Queen Elizabeth on their visit this month to Canada and the U. S. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced a sudden switch of plans: Their Majesties would travel not on the Repulse but on the prosaic, old, German-built liner Empress of Australia, known as the Tirpitz before she was handed over to Britain by Germany as part of reparations payment after the World...
...Wilhelmshaven. German naval base on the North Sea. A few inches in front of him was a bullet-proof glass shield†. Packed in the square beyond was an audience of 80,000 Heil-Hitlering Germans who had just attended the launching of the 35,000-ton battleship Von Tirpitz. Beyond them was a vast radio audience of millions in Germany, Britain, the U. S. waiting anxiously to hear a speech which had been widely heralded as the Führer's answer to the bold, diplomatic anti-German moves by Britain, France, Poland...
...After the battle of the Marne he held that Germany could not win a military victory by force of arms, consequently wanted U. S. mediation for peace. Blocked by German internal politics, by the pressure of military authorities who believed in the possibility of victory until 1918, by von Tirpitz, who spread exaggerated reports of the effectiveness of submarine warfare, Bernstorff was compelled to improvise in delaying U. S. entry into the War. With the sinking of the Lusitania, his mission lost ground steadily. After the U. S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, he became Ambassador to Turkey, returned...