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...Cecil Hurst, the British representative, strove to smooth the path of acceptance for Reservation Five by voicing a series of generalities anent the "good will" of the U.S. in international disputes. For some hours the conference marked time and compliments to the U. S. gushed. Then Dr. Osten Undén, the Swedish representative said bluntly...
...conferees, unwilling to accept Reservation Five as it stands, and deeming it unwise to adopt Dr. Undén's scarcely tactful formula, adjourned after announcing that they accepted the U. S. reservations "in principle," i. e., a pleasant way of announcing nothing...
...also had a son in the tradition, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, who purchased the "Germania" shipyard at Kiel, expanded the industry until it employed 40,000 workmen. At his death in 1902, he was succeeded by his elder and able daughter Bertha who in 1906 married Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. At that time, Germany was just getting into her stride in the naval competition with Great Britain, and the demand for steel was enormous. Before the War, visitors to Essen stood aghast at the monstrous flame-belching foundries hastily proceeding with their grotesquely demoniacal output. And during...
Hence the correct name of the genuine 20-year-old Krupp heir is not "Baron von Krupp" but Baron Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. At present he resides in Essen...
...seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony. Wagner sat tense-slumped down aghast, ashamed at whistles, catcalls, boos, hisses. Princess Metternich sobbed. Wagner went to Vienna, since Germany had exiled him. Again, Prince Metternich, please. . . Tristan und Isolde was accepted, rehearsed 57 times, abandoned-the tenor was incompetent. Vexed, Wagner produced Der Ring des Nibelungen. King Ludwig of Bavaria gazed on that pageant with vacuous wondering eye. He was no fool. Even Frederick the Great had bent the knee to Voltaire. Ludwig would have Wagner...