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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
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an unblemished record ofexemplary living. The tongue of gossip has neverbusied itself with the Kaiser in an unworthy con-nection. In one momentous instance he provedunfortunate in the choice of his friends. That isas near as William II.s name has ever come to beingdragged in the mire. It emerged from the unlovelyaffair untarnished. To discuss Maximilian Hardens crusade againstPrince Eulenburg is a thankless task in a review ofthe men who have made the Kaisers reign notable,but the review would be incomplete without it.Tlie upheaval caused by Hardens revelations wasthe most striking victory wrought in the name ofpublic opinion which Modern Germany has yetwitnessed. Journalism, which had still to conquerin the Fatherland a position commensurate withthe one it has long commanded abroad, was a powerwhen the Moltke-Harden-Eulenburg trials wereended. How much of a power was not recognisedat the time, nor is fully realised even now, though 202 B » » » >,>,*» O > • I ^? I ^»%
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\ \ MAXIMILIAN HARDEN the November crisis a year later was designedto bring it vividly home to the most reluctantcircles of German society. Vilified and ostracised by super-patriots as anoutcast, traitor and slanderer, stoned by a largesection of his own colleagues in sheer envy or myopicconception of his epoch-making achievement, Maxi-milian Harden is to-day indisputably the com-manding figure in the field of German polemics. Noman now writing in the language of Goethe andSchiller has so large a personal following, or soinfluential a voice. An incurable iconoclast, affecter ?of stylistic flourishes far above the head of the ;average reader, a literary futurist who revels in thestaccato and the cryptic, the editor of the Zukunft,whether writing or talking—he does both equallywell—is assured attentive hearing from countlessand sympathetic ears. He has the fascination ofHorace Walpole and the sledge hammer incisivenessof Cobbett. He believes heads were made to behit. If they bear a

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