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Abroad, the scene was idyllic. Edward VII of England, with two more years to reign, visited his nephew, Nicholas II of Russia, at Reval. Wilhelm of Germany, busy building warships, warmly welcomed Dr. David Jayne Hill, the new U. S. Ambassador. He explained his growing Navy as follows: "Every German warship launched is one more guarantee for peace on earth...
Emperor Franz Joseph annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearly started the War prematurely, But Wilhelm scowled down Russia and the peace was kept...
...Germany, whose scientists have the world's reputation for thoroughness, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Science last week put on an exhibition. Present were blue monkeys, yellow rats, kinky-haired rabbits, 40,000 varieties of dandelions. Selective cross breeding had caused the weird results. Apparently species of animals and plants can be changed at man's will or nature's chance...
...another thing, Wilhelm of Doorn learned, last week, that Emil Ludwig's savage best-seller Wilhelm Hohenzollern, The Last of the Kaisers (TIME, March 21, 1927) is being dramatized for simultaneous production in Manhattan and Berlin this winter. Last winter Berlin courts sustained a suit for injunction against Communist Producer Edwin Piscator (TIME, Dec. 26), which was brought by Wilhelm of Doorn to compel censorship of a stage "Kaiser" from whose mouth came drooling and silly words, punctuated by posturings...
Soothing balm was supplied by an obscure tribunal at Windhoek in the British Union of South Africa which last week restored to Wilhelm II two large farms illegally confiscated from...