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GEN. LUDENDORFF THE HIGHER SLANG

WHEN THE EX-KAISER LOST

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AT END OF THE WAR

Berlin,The all-powerful dicta- torship exercised by General Ludendorff and the total impotence of the Kaiser "during the second half of the War has neve heen described with such incisive clarity as in a book on the origin of the German Republic by the Berlin historian, Artur Rosenberg, now published.

"RICH COMMONPLACES" OF SPEECH

CLICHES OF THE LANGUAGE

A committee appointed by the Board of Education.has just issued a report In which it is stated that children no longer understand the rich commonplaces of traditional English speech," such as a "mess of pottage," "Job's comforters, and "a burren fig tree."

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In so far as this is evidence that: modern children, or a great number of them, are less familiar with the "On Aug. 29, 1916, he says, "the Bible than their fathers wore, Kaiser was compelled by feeling in this is to be regretted (writes the Army and the people to dismiss Robert Lynd in the "Daily News.") his Chief of Staff, General Falkan-

It is important that everybody hayn. With this day begins the should know: the great cliches of iquidation of the Bismarckian Em-the language and that nobody piré, and, if you like, the German should use them, revolution. In his place came I remember a woman who, on the Hindenburg, together with Luden-apparance of tea, used always to dorf, who, assumed the newly-exclaim with a prim smile, "Ah, the created title of "First Quarter-cup. that cheers!" phrase, by master-General," and was hence the way, which is not in the Bible, Wire forth the real master of the and, apart from that, is a mia-On demand

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*On Shanghai them with his name. The Kaiser at least that she could have con- thereby lost the supreme command cealed her familiarity in presence On demand of a leapot. of the Army which he at least formally retained till August, 1916.".

Ludendorff's Methods. Ludendorff's method of usurping the dictatorship was a simple one. Whenever any military or political proposal came up of which he dis- upproved, he exerted pressure by declaring that he could not, bear the "responsibility."

"Imperial authority had sunk.so low and that of the two Army com- manders had grown so strong, that Wilhelm II. was powerless against them. If the Kaiser had attempted in 1917 to suppress Ludendorff, the Ludendorff, crisis would very bocome the Kaloor

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The use of phrases like this is merely a kind of higher slang. It is comparable to the old fashion of quoting Latin tags in the House It is an excellent of Commons. thing to know Latin, but there is us more merit in quoting a Latin tug than in talking the latest elung recorded in the works of Mr. P. C. Wodehouse. It is a pity not to know the latest slang, but it la equally a pity to talk it-or, at least, to talk nothing else,

At the same time; I think the gradual disappearance of the higher slang from conversation is an ominous sign. It means that have

Bchool-children are being educated crisis."

more and more on modern authors Ludendorff made and unmade Chancellors. When Ludendorff ob- and are being given the works of contemporary poets and essayists jected to Bethmann Holweg's to read Instead of the works of the polley Bethmann Holweg went. acknowledged masters of the pust. Ludendorff on the fleeting impres-I am sure this is all wrong. alon of a single meeting approved It is highly important that a of Michaelis, Michaelis became child should be interested in con- Chancellor.

temporary life and contemporary things, but it is equally important that it should have a sense of the past. As It does not need to go to school in order to become inter- ested in contemporary things, I should be inclined. to leave that part of its education to itself. If it does not discover Shakespeare or Milton at school, however, it may never discover, them..

"That is how Germany was ruled during the War," he says. Luden- dorff similarly reserved the right to determine the ex-Kaiser's per- sonal environment. at Court. He objected to von Valentini as chief of the civil.cabinet, and the Kaiser dismissed von Valentini tó order, The Kaiser strongly felt the humiliation of his position, and as usual found vent for his feelings in marginal notes.

Not that we of the older gen- erations were taught very good

and

In January.. 1918, a Berlin news. poetry in our infancy, The Vili- paper published an article on the age Blacksmith" is all very well, I should be sorry to be relations between Ludendorff and Kuhlmann, the ex-Foreign Secre-ignorant of it, but Mr. de la Mare has written better poems than that. tary, another of Ludendorff's vic-Then here was "The Arab's Fare- time. Against all the passages well to His Steed.", and Mr. W. B. attacking. Ludendorff the Kaiser Yeats rises to a higher level than would write "Yes," "Quite Right," that, "Hohenlinden" and "The "Excellent." The article hinted Battle of the Baltic were livelier, that all was not well with the rela- but no one to-day would dream tions between the military and of counting them among the glories political leadership, whereat the of English literature. At the Kaiser wrote, "Because the Kaisor same, time, they were all part of a ia ignored by both sides."

tradition, and reminded us that we had ancestors.

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Bismarck Avenged "That," Raya Herr Rosenberg. "is

A Pity the same Wilhelm II, who in 1890

Apart from this, it would be a could drive away. a Bismarck, and who was once minded, to trample pity to see the higher slang fading down everything that opposed his entirely out of common speech. If path. But now he had found his the higher alang disappears the

Colonel Crompton took a "Daily master in Ludendorff. The Kaiserower slang, which will probably Mail" reporter to the lighting be a bad imitation of the cx: was ignored on all sides. Bismarck cellent slang of America, will take which he built in 1886, the oldest station at the back of his house, was avenged." 1

It is almost comie to turn from its place: And: the higher slang supply company in the world, and this account to an article published standard authors Shakespeare, he chuckled as he said: "Those by Ludendorff to-day, in which he Milton,, Pope,., Goldsmith, Gray, lights have been burning ever since. violently, seconds the ex-Crown Wordsworth, Dickens and Tenny They were there before Edison had Prince's fulminations.

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air, would you not regard him as Ichang, Friday. little better than an imbecile? The Society waging a boycott There cliches, odious as they are against the Japanese has now pre in their excessive use, are never- vented pilots from going aboardtheless evidence of a rich and vessels of the China Navigation varied imaginative background in Co. Ltd. (Messrs. Butterfield and which century is piled behind Swire). The boycott men's ex- century. For this reason I am cuse is that they wish to search inclined to think that it is better that a child should-be brought up the cargoes carried.

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