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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 ever consent to wear. He would be the leaderof the Kaisers Loyal Opposition. He is that nowin all but name. Social Democracy is the one potentand consistent Opposition force in German politics, itaccepts the monarchy pretty much as an accom-plished, if undesirable, fact, and Bebel is the partysomnipotent Commander-in-Chief. He has just ^\Titten an autobiography. It iscalled My Life. He might well have paraphrasedMr. Roosevelt and named it My Strenuous Life,for the great old Democrat has been protestingand fighting for the better part of half a century.To-day, aged seventy-three, he is white and bent,and the doctors compel him to look after his heart,but he is still the active generalissimo of his militantarmy of 4,250,000 supporters—far and away thestrongest political party of the realm—and his lustfor battle is no less incorrigible than when first hededicated himself to the peoples cause as a striplingof twenty-one, a decade before the Empire was born.80 > > > > J 5
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