Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third Reich. Wildly elated were the German princelings, who saw their coronets settling back on their cropped heads. In Spandau, Berlin suburb, Pudgy Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of the Kaiser, made an enthusiastic Hitlerite speech...
Enemies of Thomas Bat'a called him a Wartime profiteer. Certainly the marching feet of Kaiser Franz Josef's men wore out millions of Bat'a shoes. After the feet ceased to march and the Austrian Empire collapsed Thomas Bat'a took his profits across the Atlantic, opened a shoe factory at Lynn, Mass, in 1922, learned all the tricks of Fordized technique. When the new Czechoslovakian Republic had been safely launched, Mr. Bat'a moved the machinery of his Lynn factory to Zlin...
...itself a cut of nearly 50% from the Governor of the Bank of England's first fantastic figure of 116 billions. In 1918 Mr. Lloyd George won Britain's election with the slogans "Make Germany Pay The Whole Cost Of The War!" and "Hang The Kaiser...
Inevitably the puffing of Bavarian monarchists fanned a few German imperialist embers. Two thousand adherents of abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II gathered at Dresden, were addressed by his daughter-in-law, ex-Crown Princess Cecilie. What she said did not amount to much but she joined in Hochs! and handclaps when General Bock von Wuelfingen went the whole hog, demanded the end of the German Republic and restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. Though this was certainly treason, Dresden police made nothing of it, stood about grinning, saluted ex-Crown Princess Cecilie when she went home...
...promises have failed to come true, adding that Germany can pay no more Reparations, there was no quarrel. The Frenchman's equally blunt retort that Germany can and must pay something, was taken in good part by Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Suddenly this onetime officer in the Kaiser's Army electrified Lausanne by proposing casually and unofficially "in American"* a military alliance between Germany and France...