Word: alson
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...View of the Spree, by Alson J. Smith. It seems that Kaiser Wilhelm had an American mistress, who, despite her Calvinist morality (she made him burn his collection of dirty pictures), became an ardent German nationalist. The author, her grandnephew, has set down a fascinating history, although he has failed to establish (as he believes) that Auntie was a major cause of World...
...View of the Spree, by Alson J. Smith...
...VIEW OF THE SPREE (305 pp.)-Alson J. Smith-John...
...have looked so far. When he was in his 20s, no one stirred the Kaiser's dreams of empire more than a pretty, blue-eyed American of good family and Protestant piety named Mary Esther Lee. After combing many volumes of letters she sent home from Europe, Alson Smith concluded that this daughter of a rich Manhattan grocer (and his own great-aunt) was the Kaiser's mistress. The course of modern German history might have been much different, he argues, if this American had not turned into a German nationalist...