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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d when to the ordinary burdensof Empire were added the heavy sacrifices inblood and treasure of a stubborn rebellion in South-West Africa. The able gentlemen of the green-tablesystem found, less to their indignation than to theirastonishment, that bureaucracy and colonising donot go hand in hand. Half a dozen Geheimrate andHerren Doktoren had been tried at the ColonialOffice. All had failed. The last to be found want-ing was a kinsman of the Kaiser himself. PrinceErnst von Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Dernburg, wasrelied upon to do for the colonies what he had madea reputation for doing as a rejuvenator of industrialand financial lame-ducks—to put them on their feet.Patriotism of a high order induced Dernburg todesert business for office. He gave up the managing-directorship of a great bank worth ;f 10,000 a year,and a dozen company directorships netting himhalf as much again, for a paltry Cabinet salary of;fi,250 and a glorious opportunity to fail. But the178 i 9 » > 3> » - - » J
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