To make Germany respected and feared, a voice that shall compel obedience and whose frown no nation shall wittingly provoke, and to do this through the force of diplomacy and not the force of arms, — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 18, 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. File Photo courtesy Kabinett-Fotografie/Wikimedia ...

IN the summer of 1908, the Emperor William II of Germany granted an interview to my father, William Bayard Hale, the American journalist and biographer. Political observers became interested in it ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended upon his death March 9, 1888, and he was succeeded by his son, Frederick III ...