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...wearing a long gray tweed overcoat motioned to his servant to enter the luggage car; he entered the empty car and sat behind the steering wheel, and then motioned to the remaining three men to take their seats. One minute later both automobiles were carrying Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince of Germany, his adjutant, Major von Muldner, Burgomaster Kolff of Wieringen, a captain of gendarmes and the ex-crown Prince's servant to the German frontier...
Later in the day when the inhabitants of Wieringen woke up they found a letter from the Crown Prince...
Arriving at the small town of Ewijksluis, the ex-Crown Prince said good-bye to the captain of gendarmes. At the frontier he said good-bye to the Burgomaster, then passed on into the Fatherland. Arriving in Hanover, the ex-Crown Prince visited Germany's famed Generalfeldmarschall, von Hindenburg. His visit lasted only half an hour, after which Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, choosing the sideways and byways in order to escape detection, sped on toward his destination, which was reputed to be his beautiful 20,000-acre estate at Oels near Breslau in Silesia, where he was eagerly awaited...
Protests to the Dutch Government about the ex-Crown Prince's return to Germany having been rebuffed, the Allies were forced outwardly to accept his return with urbane indifference. Later they found themselves in a quandary with regard to the reported activities of the ex-All-Highest. There was an electric storm in the world as telegraph and telephone lapped and gingled unending reports of what the Allies intended to do. The truth was that they themselves did not know...
...King George of Greece married Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, Feb. 27, 1921 ; Princess Helene, his sister, married Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, March 10, 1921. Princess Olga, first cousin of the King, married Prince Paul of Serbia...