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After his fall, von Tirpitz, in a letter to some admirers who had sent him verses and a wreath, advocated holding the coast of Flanders as a necessity for the war against England and America. The successor of von Tirpitz was Admiral von Holtzendorff, whose brother is Ballin's right hand man in the management of the Hamburg American Line.
No visitor to that library, and they numbered many distinguished visitors, American and foreign, from Emerson and Alcott and George Macdonald to others less well known, dreamed that the serene marble features of Goethe would be replaced by the granite fissures of the face of Bismarck; and that Auerbach's Black Forest Stories would be less known than Albert Ballin's fleet of mercantile ships.
Whereas I was invited to lunch at the Imperial board, Herr Ballin was only asked to dinner. Among the many and various charges which were brought against me in my Washington days, was the allegation that I was principally an agent of Ballin's.
Then your cousin, Ranger Ballin, and his son went down in the City of Pittsburgh; and all this" he made a sudden, sweeping gesture with one of his long, well-kept hands "came to you." "Yes?" Ballin's voice still interrogated coolly. Forrest broke into that naive, boyish smile of his.
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