Von Bismarck

"Prinz von Bismarck!" cried many a bygone majordomo, welcoming Germany's "Iron Chancellor." And "Prinz von Bismarck!" announced a flunky at the German Embassy at Washington a few days ago, as a commonplace, Babbitt-tailored young man entered.

Reporters, allured by the fact that the young man was "the eldest son of the eldest son of the man of blood and iron," buttonholed 28-year-old Prince Otto von Bismarck. To them he spoke in terms little remindful of his stern grandsire: "Your America without question is a paradise. I have never seen a more beautiful spot than this city. ... It is indeed charming."

The reporters gasped. Fop? Milksop? But later they learned that he had served during the War in the German Flying Corps. Paying heed for a moment longer, they learned that he is the Bremen delegate to the Reichstag; that he came to the U. S. to visit a cousin, Baron Leopold Piessen, attache to the German embassy at Washington.