Dernburg

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

BERNHARD, a German diplomat. By gradual promotions he reached the post of Colonial Minister in the Chancellorship of Bülow. The opening of the World War in 1914 found him in the United States where he entered upon a propaganda designed to arouse sympathy for Germany. In this sympathy he was fairly successful until the sink- in England, in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, ing of the Lusitania in May of 1915. He finally became so unpopular that he voluntarily left the United States and returned to Germany. There he exerted his influence to prevent war between the two nations, but the failure of his mission in the United States made his influence on the German Government of no importance. After the Revolution of 1919, Dernburg became a prominent leader of those voters in Germany who wished to prevent the complete capture of the German Government by the Socialists, and yet did not wish for a return of the former Imperial régime. Whether true or not, it was alleged that he and his party, the German People's party, were not hostile to a return to monarchy. DÉROULÉDE, PAUL (dā-rö-lād'), a French poet; born in Paris, Sept. 2, 1846. His "Soldier Songs" (1872) and "Military Refrains" (1888) were immensely popular, and won him the presidency of the Patriotic League, an association intensely hostile to Germans. In 1900 he was sentenced to 10 years banishment for conspiring against the Republic. The Amnesty Act of 1905 reduced the sentence to five years. He wrote a drama on patriotism, "The Hetman," and the semi-religious drama, "The Moabitess." He died 1914.