GERMANY: Kaiserlicher Liquidated

It is 18 years since Wilhelm II, All Highest Kaiser and War Lord, abdicated as German Emperor, but he was still last week Commodore of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club which he founded 49 years ago, just before his accession to the Throne. It placed the Kiel Regatta on a par of nautical swankness with Britain's Cowes Regatta. Last winter German socialites of the Kaiserlicher Club nearly provoked the Nazi brownshirt proletariat of Kiel to riot by announcing they would celebrate Jan. 27 the birthday of Der Kaiser. A clash was averted. The Kaiserlichers...

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