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German Republic. The Centre-Right Cabinet of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx is founded upon a perhaps not unshakable rock ballast of coalition support, but the German Republic has long gone forward, irrespective of cabinet changes, under four perennial leaders: 1) Revered, monolithic President Paul von Hindenburg contributes to the State stability and prestige; 2) "The German Lloyd George," Dr. Gustav Stresemann, continues as Foreign Minister in cabinet after cabinet and negotiates ceaselessly among the former enemy powers from whom he has filched many a concession; 3) stern, able Defense Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than...
...Round and 'round turns slowly a great skeletonized globe. Above it squats a dummy representing God. On three platforms near the periphery of the globe stand actors wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, all three call upon God to grant victory to their respective armies; but when the dummy makes no sign, each monarch begins loudly to protest his own complete innocence of War-guilt...
...drama Rasputin, recently produced in Berlin by dynamic modernist-communist Director Erwin Piscator. At the piece there have been no audience-riots-for Berlin playgoers are supremely tolerant-but at Doorn, in the Netherlands, an old man has grown angry, hired lawyers, made threats. Last week the lawyers of Wilhelm of Dorn were successful. From one of the lower Berlin courts they obtained a permanent injunction restraining Director Piscator from placing on his slowly turning globe any actor, mask or dummy in the likeness of Wilhelm...
Throughout Germany these words were voluntarily suppressed, last week, by nearly all news organs-so great and beloved is Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, so puny and ignored is Erich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ludendorff...
...years ago he gained cheap fame with the pamplet Caligula." Indeed, few Germans could recall, last week, the full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace societies, he loomed, last week, as a distinguished "fraternizer" in the Nobel...