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OK, added. John >See Marshall Dill, Jr., Germany, A Modern History, Univ. of Michigan Press, >Ann Harbor, 1970, pp. 248-9. The Kaiser was given an ultimatum to abdicate >on Nov. 8, 1918. He replied he might resign as Emperor but remain as King of >Prussia, who appointed enough seats in the upper house to block any amendment >to the Constitution. There was an uprising in Berlin. On his own a leader >in Berlin announced the Kaiser had abdicated. On the night before the end of >the war the Kaiser fled to Holland and had the protection of the Dutch queen. > "It was not until almost three weeks later that he drew up an act of >abdication." >Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton (Carleton), >Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey (Ritchie, >Richie, Ritchey), Spence, Sumner, Way, and Wells families. [ This is the Quarterman book discussion list, book@quarterman.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.quarterman.org/booklist.html