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Reputedly Kaiser Wilhelm II referred in 1914 to "England's contemptible little Army" and the disclosures of last week revealed that the French, while too polite to employ the Kaiser's adjective, recall how much squabbling there was between British and French commanders in 1914-18. They fear that the necessarily small British Army may have been more trouble than its heroism was worth. Putting this even more politely the New York Times observed last week: "French generals are not certain that they want another British Expeditionary Force on their flank clogging their roads and transport facilities...
Minister-President Hermann Wilhelm Goring cocked his large snook last month in Berlin to roar: "Our colonies have been stolen from us! ... Britain has one-third of the world as her colonies. . . . Also our gold has been stolen from...
...Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 77, published in Berlin a richly-illustrated, 163-page book entitled Studien zur Gorgo ("Studies of the Gorgon"). The exiled Kaiser began Gorgon research in 1911 after visiting the ancient Doric temple on the island of Corfu said to have been built in honor of the three Greek Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale, Medusa), mythological snaky-haired sisters whose terrifying looks turned beholders into stone...
...York's Comptroller McGoldrick in 1934. He lectures to retailing classes at New York University, serves as board chairman to the University in Exile, which provides teaching posts for top-notch German refugees. He headed the group of Philharmonic patrons who canceled their subscriptions when Germany's Wilhelm Furtwängler was named Toscanini's successor (see p. 51 ), was first to restore his gift when Furtwängler withdrew. Short, stocky, with a great black bush of hair. Founder Hirschmann plays a tough game of tennis, has "three hobbies: music, long tramps in the woods, helping...
...years since Wilhelm II, All Highest Kaiser and War Lord, abdicated as German Emperor, but he was still last week Commodore of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club which he founded 49 years ago, just before his accession to the Throne. It placed the Kiel Regatta on a par of nautical swankness with Britain's Cowes Regatta. Last winter German socialites of the Kaiserlicher Club nearly provoked the Nazi brownshirt proletariat of Kiel to riot by announcing they would celebrate Jan. 27 the birthday of Der Kaiser. A clash was averted. The Kaiserlichers dined and roared "Hoch der Kaiser!", but Storm...