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It was here that her American aunt, Countess Waldersee, came to her assistance, instructed her, and acted as her mentor, not only in matters of etiquette and manner, but in the attitude to be observed towards the various members of Berlin society as well. It is as a mother that the empress shows herself in one of her most charming lights.
By one ingenious stroke the sudden flight of the Court the Chinese have turned the tables on allied Europe and made us all ridiculous. Any one might have anticipated something of this there is a precedent in the histories. Yet history is only made to be immediately forgotten. October, 1900. At length Waldersee has arrived. He made a sort of entry which seemed to me farcical.
The grand advance is finished and done with, but now some column commanders wish to push down into the south of the province and isolate the Court, if possible. Meetings are being held the whole time, but as Waldersee is coming up, nothing is to be done until his arrival.
A little later the expeditionary corps from Germany, 19,000 strong, under General von Lessel, and that from France, 10,000 strong, arrived. At the suggestion, it is said, of Russia, and by agreement among the European Powers, united by a common sympathy and in face of a common danger, the German Field-Marshal, Count Waldersee, was appointed to the supreme command of all the European forces.
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