Word: prussia
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...Revolution in Prussia," Professor Langer, Harvard...
Only major mourner to arrive without troops was Adolf Hitler's blustering Air Minister and Premier of Prussia, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. He embarrassed everyone by hailing King Alexander as a dictator-which indeed His Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under...
...threatening at the gates of Paris. The fact is that he did not and through his failure the war came to a long, frightfully wasting deadlock. Today the world must guard against the possible resurge of that spirit which the name of Von Kluck connotes--that spirit which drove Prussia on in 1914, under frenzied leaders and wild ambitions, till her armies were sweeping East and West across Europe like huge machines, and general staffs and supreme commands directed the human slaughter from safe posts in the rear...
...King of Sardinia was, like all the Bourbons, a fool, the Portuguese Queen a Braganza and therefore by nature an idiot, The successor to Frederic of Prussia...
Other Germans who merit executive clemency, the Realmleader decreed, will be pardoned by General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia, Air Minister and Grand Master of the Chase, who conducted the Nazi blood purge in Berlin while Herr Hitler was purging Munich (TIME, July 9). Since Nazi Goring, a War ace grown beefy, designs a new uniform for himself every time he adds to his string of offices, Berlin buzzed with scurrilous rumors that "Hermann has sent to Oberammergau for the costume of the Saviour in which he will sign pardons...