Word: westarp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon fiery Count Kuno von Westarp, leader of the second largest political party in the land, Die Deutschnationale Volkspartei introduced a still more rabid Monarchist, Col. von Struense, who proceeded to utter things which Count von Westarp, because of his political status, dare not say. Bristling and bellicose, Col. von Struense roared: "A turning point in German history has arrived-this evening marks the beginning of a fight which can end only in the coronation of a German Kaiser...
That was about all, except that Prince August Wilhelm and Count Kuno von Westarp and the Colonel went on later in the evening to several more Monarchist rallies, with a total attendance estimated around...
Count Kuno von Westarp is certainly too shrewd to imagine that the 20,000,000 votes will ever be polled; but he needs an issue around which to rally supporters to his Party, and apparently he has decided that by backing the "Kaiser Referendum" he can win the support of the few thousand super-Monarchist revolutionaries who have heretofore kept up their own party organizations...
Ineffectual Prince August Wilhelm is just now the freak in Count von Westarp's Monarchist side show. His plump, effectual onetime spouse, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, divorced him in 1920. Their son, Prince Ferdinand, just about to turn swart 16, already drills with a Monarchist "Youth Corps...
...Berlin the processions of glittering nonentities who wished to shake the Soviet Minister's hand were resumed. Prince von Bulow (onetime Court Chamberlain) Count Rantzau (brother of the German Ambassador to Moscow), Counts Kalckrenth, Westarp, et al., were called in by Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Strese-mann to have lunch with M. Tchitcherin and keep him entertained...