A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 9

emotion rather than of the power;  and its meaning in history is that
he was the crest of a wave, his/her superficial foam and foam without his
thick strength. A small man in a great position, he was weak
to go by bicycle the whirlwind or to direct the storm, and he greatly showed up in
the public eye because he made a hole through an imperial megaphone the
fleeting exponents of the vulgar mind.

After Agadir he had often been called a coward behind his/her back, and it
you/he/she was whispered that its throne would have been in danger if that surrender
it was repeated. He had deserved these reproaches because nobody had done
more than him to inflate the arrogance of his/her people and his/her the more old man
child assumed the direction behind the scenes him in public and exasperating opinion.
The militarists, with considerable back support from financial and
commercial groups, were bent on war and appeals of war to the men in the
roads of everybody but the weakest countries. The mass of the people had
not been decided for a war that was not defensive;  but modern
governments have ample he/she means for granting public opinion, and with a
people so accustomed as the Germans to accept above the truth from,
their rules would have the small difficulty, when once they had agreed
on war, in to represent him/it as one of defense. It is, however,
impossible to say when, if never, the rules of Germany were
attack;  and to the last one the Imperial Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg,
fought for differing whether not to dissuade the breakup. But him gradually lost
his/her taking on the Kaiser. The decisive factor in the mind of the emperor is able
you/he/she has been the rout in 1912-13 of the Turks, on who Germany had tied to a pole
his/her credit in return for control of the run of routing in Berlin-Baghdad;  for the
Balkan confederation and free that it appeared in distance on the horizon it would block for
never German expansion toward the east. States Balkan same
provided that the German opportunity;  the Essay of Bukarest in 1913