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Died. Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia, 69, last surviving son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who got bounced from army ranks (he was a major general) in 1940 when Hitler slapped down on old royalty; of cancer; in Munich...
...statement could not be ignored in the last week of an election campaign. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano blustered darkly of taking action against Yugoslavia (nature undisclosed). The point of Tito's toast is that West Germany has never abandoned its claims to the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, which were given to Poland at the end of World War II to compensate Poland for the slice of its eastern lands (68,667 sq. mi.) grabbed by Russia. Whenever Russia wants to curry favor with Poland, it rakes up memories of Poland's hard occupation...
...American West. Krupp also turned out steel cannon, but for many years had little success in selling them until German militarists finally awoke to the fact that the new cannon were easier to load and more accurate and durable than the traditional bronze models. With Krupp cannon, Prussia defeated Austria in 1866 and France in 1871. By 1887 Krupp had sold 24,567 big guns to 21 nations. Alfred Krupp became known in Essen as "Alfred the Great" and abroad as the "Cannon King...
...into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland (as in Hungary) a potent center of temporal power and political leverage. When the throne was vacant, the primate was "interrex"(interim King), and when in 1772 Poland suffered the first of many partitions at the hands of Russia, Austria and Prussia, the Poles looked to the primate as their temporal and spiritual head. As Primate of Poland, Wyszynski speaks with a prestige and importance fashioned by Poland's past...
Died. Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-GIucksburg, 69. onetime wife (1908-20) of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, fourth son of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II; of a heart attack; in Lyon, France...