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While in Doorn, Holland, this summer, a CRIMSON reporter attempted to see the exiled Wilhelm II for an interview, but His Majesty repeatedly refused to grant an interview. The reporter was finally forced to resort to correspondence. In one instance the Kaiser's opinion of the League of Nations was asked. The following vitriolic message was the answer...
...rebuffed by President von Hindenburg when its new Speaker asked by telegram for an immediate interview with des Reichspräsident at his country estate in Neudeck, east Prussia, 260 miles from Berlin. The President, frankly playing the Dictator, wired back that he would grant audience to Fascist Speaker Goering "next week" in Berlin...
...week of as tense plotting, bargaining and intrigue as Germany has seen since the War. Hauptmann von Schleicher. The most important man in Germany today, the man who foresaw this crisis, brought it on and was confidently prepared last week to deal with it, was not at the fateful interview. Generalleutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense, sat at his desk in the War Office fingering a paper in his desk drawer which he has had drawn up for days. If published, it will declare martial law throughout Germany, and the indefinite suspension of the Reichstag and parliamentary government. Pleasant...
...anything else would seem too much. Yet the Hays organization sometimes attempts it. Last year, regulations against salacious cinemadvertising were added to the industry's code. Last week came another incident to heat and bother the upright Presbyterian soul of Tsar Hays. In Motion Picture Magazine appeared an interview with decadent-looking Tallulah Bankhead (daughter of Alabama's onetime Representative William Brockman Bankhead). written by one Gladys Hall. Reported Miss Hall: "I am told that Tallul' is never decently hypocritical. . . . She reveals All- and more than all. . . . She gives to all functions of living and loving...
...since the days of Victoria and Palmerston has public criticism been leveled against the Crown in Britain. The audience filed out in shocked silence. Newshawks hurried to the platform to interview the Master of University College who presided. Sir Michael Ernest Sadler,* scowling purse-lipped over his doctor's gown, said he: "I consider Mr. Wells's references to the King simply a dark line in the historian's larger contributions about national life...