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...medium build, hard, clad in a tight uniform bespread with medals, seemed last week to retain unaltered the Prussian severity which he acquired some 20 years ago as a cadet at Potsdam. He is now Premier of the Turkish Republic, after fighting through the World War, repeatedly decorated by Wilhelm II for his often victorious services to the Central Powers. Today his hair is growing white, but his eyes are still a keen, steel grey; and, still deaf, he continues to play the little trick of seeming deafer than he is when that suits his purpose...
This was enough for headline writers, for rewrite men clever at jazzing copy, for editors honest but forced to conclude that Benito Mussolini had confessed at last to militarist, imperial ambitions scarcely expressed more recklessly by Wilhelm II as Kaiser and All Highest War Lord...
...events proved last week how utterly Republican Germany has laid aside the mentality of Imperial days: 1) The Reichstag voted 323 to 41 to continue for two more years the Protection of the Republic Bill, debarring Wilhelm II from returning to Germany. 2) His Excellency General von Pawels announced that under his direction there have been destroyed the last of the fortifications along the Polish frontier which Germany agreed to scrap in return for concessions from the Allies (TIME...
...these words last week the Schlesische Tagespost, reactionary organ of Silesian Nationalists, paid homage to Friedrich Wilhelm, sometime Crown Prince, on the occasion of his 45th birthday. He was born to the late Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, at the Marble Palace, Potsdam...
...McKinley's "manifest doctrine" policy, advocating permanent retention of the Philippine Islands. He joined the Progressive Party in 1912, was chairman of the Roosevelt convention. In 1922 he was defeated for the Senate by the late Samuel M. Ralston. A war correspondent in 1914-15, he interviewed Kaiser Wilhelm II, published a volume, What Is Back of the War. Flayed as pro-German, this book was later barred from many a library, from training camps. In 1907 Senator Beveridge married his second wife, Miss Catherine Eddy of Chicago (niece of Mrs. Marshall Field), in Berlin where her brother...