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Dispatches from a neutral source of the German frontier pointed out an apt historical parallel: Kaiser Wilhelm II's celebrated meeting with his Crown Council in August 1918, when the German war lords of that day decided that bitter, drawn-out fighting might yet weary the Allies into granting a soft peace...
...lieutenant presented the compliments of Lieut. General Karl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben, military commander of Cherbourg, and of Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke, naval commander, and asked that an officer be sent to the tunnel to conduct them out to surrender...
Punctiliously the Ninth's commander, Major General Manton S. Eddy, had extended every military courtesy-including brandy and a talk about the battle-to the city's captured defenders: German Lieut. General Karl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Walther Hennecke. As he accompanied his prisoners to the door, camera bulbs flashed. A grump from the Germans brought a tactful explanation: the U.S. press is free; General Eddy could not and would not forbid the photographers to take pictures. General von Schlieben snarled that he was bored with the whole idea of a free press...
...Wilhelm Furtwdngler, greatest living German conductor, who, after a tiff with the Nazi authorities in 1934, became the pride of Nazi Germany's concert halls and opera houses...
...Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived by police van. Among them: famed, shrewd Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, good friend of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; the Silver Shirts' William Dudley Pelley; onetime Bundleader Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze...