Identifier: menaroundkaiserm00wilerich (find matches)
Title: Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Biography Germany -- Politics and government 1888-1918 Germany -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d stony path, buthe has made a good beginning. He is burdened withno fatuous illusions concerning the imponderabiliaof the situation. He knows that a rapprochementcannot be built up on intellectual sympathies orconsiderations of sentiment. He recognises thatnaval rivalry is the paramount issue. He realisesthat until it is adjusted, settled or reconciled, Anglo-German relations can never rest on a foundationof permanent security or genuine trust. He admitsthat the problem bristles with difficulties, bothof a political and technical nature, but he isoptimist enough to consider its solution witliinthe realm of possibilities. He admits GreatBritains necessity to be supreme at sea, and con-tends that those of his countrymen who dispute itare an uninfluential minority. Prince Lichnowskyhas not always been as sound or open-minded onnaval politics as he is to-day. As recently as fouryears ago he cherished a strangely myopic concep-tion of the underlying motives of Britains demand238 i) 5 >
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