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...persons dependent on charity for their support. The population of Germany is about 60,000,000. "The National League of German Officers knows but one great aim- preparation for the day that is sure to come." These were the words used at a celebration commemorating Kaiser Wilhelm I and his army. Among those present were: Princes Eitel Friedrich and Oscar, sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II, with their wives; Generals von Gallwitz and von der Goltz, World War veterans; Admiral von Schroeder and many other high officers, resplendent in glittering uniforms...
...answer to 26 motions to revoke or modify the Government fiscal reforms, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx again told the Reichstag that it would be dissolved if it interfered with the Government's power now being exercised under a constitutional amendment. Speaking in the low, slow, even tones for which he is noted, the Chancellor said the Government had saved the nation from the horrors which further depreciation of the mark would have brought. He warned the Reichstag that tampering with the Government's decrees would undo the good work and start Germany off in a mad career down...
Under the leadership of the noted publicist, Wilhelm Hall-Halfen, a concerted effort was being made to run ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm for President of the German Republic. Said Hall-Halfen: "We do not expect that Prince Wilhelm will accept now, but 3,000,000 German voters are already behind him, with more joining daily. The recent State Assembly elections prove that German sentiment is swinging toward the Right, which will aid the Prince Wilhelm campaign by making his candidacy irresistible...
...German newspaper denounced the German habit of promiscuous eating as "disgusting as the gum-chewing of the Americans." In particular the paper berated those citizens who go to hear Tannhauser and Wilhelm Tell accompanied with sandwiches, cheese, sausages. "Foreigners will get a wrong impression of the Kultur of the Father-land...
Citizens who go to see Wilhelm Tell accompanied by sandwiches, cheese, sausages...