Congress recently passed the sensitively named Maimed Veterans Act, which leads the Pension Bureau to check its records and turn up a 79-year-old Civil War vet who’s been paid under the rates for slightly disabled veterans instead of completely blind ones (he caught some eye disease on sentry duty in 1864). He’ll get the additional benefits going forward and the ones he should have gotten since 1904.
Former kaiser Wilhelm objects to his palace on Corfu, which was confiscated by Greece during the Great War but which he says he still owns, being turned into a casino. I’m not sure exactly which palace the NYT is talking about, but if I’m right that they’ve got some of the facts wrong it might be Achilleion, which will not become a casino except in a James Bond film.
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