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Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener made a bristling, characteristic speech to the Reichstag, last week, roundly declaring that "the present alarming increase in suicides among German soldiers" is directly due to a clause in the Versailles Treaty which prevents Germans from enlisting in the Reichswehr for a period of less than twelve years...
...intended to portray the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, March 12), had its premiere without incident at Brussels, Belgium, last week, in a version from which incidents concerning Nurse Cavell had been virtually excluded. As revamped, Dawn is concerned chiefly with a lengthy contrast between the lives of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson...
When animals were first studied by the psychologists, their behavior was interpreted anthropomorphically. The knowledge of human psychology was thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt. First to throw brilliant new light on the problem was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Son of a priest in a Russian village, he was early confronted with Spirit & Mind v. Matter. Long years in scientific study got him a doctor's degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department...
Conductor-Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, second cousin of Wilhelm, thwarted in his eager attempts to perform for charity (TIME, March 12), turned professional last week. On the scheme of following the Romans while in Rome, he announced that he would conduct now only for a fee and one comparable to that received by Arturo Toscanini (i. e., approximately $2,500 a concert). His services are to be on the market in Manhattan for eight days at which time he will start on a sightseeing tour-to Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, perhaps Canada...
Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, 53, second cousin of Wilhelm II, and a talented musician-composer-conductor, was enroute to Manhattan last week on the SS Majestic. Tactlessness on the part of his U. S. agent caused the International Dental Foundation for Chicago to cancel a symphony concert for charity which His Royal Highness was to have conducted in Manhattan. "We feel so disappointed.'' radioed officials of the Foundation to Prince Joachim Albrecht. He radioed back: "News excites me very much," and was expected to patch up the concert arrangements...