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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zeal, from a naval cadetship to the supremedirection of the Empires sea forces. He is theworlds only Minister of Marine who incorporatesthe rare combination of seamanship, executive talentand statesmanship. Because he is a great politician, report periodi-cally associates Von Tirpitzs name with the Im-perial Chancellorship. Germany is not rich in strongmen of premiership rank. Von Tirpitz is one ofthem. His work at the Admiralty may be said tobe finished. He has not only hewn the way, buttrod it for a decade and a half, and he has bred aschool of able subordinates who make the masterhand no longer indispensable. A Von Tirpitz Chancellorship would mean butone thing—a German Government with fullsteam ahead as its naval policy. He is the manwho conceived the naval programme. It is he whoabetted and promoted the supplementarylegislation which has raised the Fatherlands Fleetexpenditure by steady stages from ;f6,000,000 in1898 to £23,000,000 in 1913. His is the astute2 J J* J « > J
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