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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter hasachieved success as his countrys representa-tive at St. Petersburg, Paris, Constantinople,Stockholm, and several of the Balkan capitals.It is largely due to his keen diplomacy andtireless energy that the Fatherland nowplays such a prominent and profitable part inthe economic and commercial development ofthe Balkans and Turkey. While he was Minister at Bucharest in the summer of1910, he succeeded Baron von Schoen asForeign Minister of the Empire. A man ofdominating personality, rather brusque man-ners, and a pronounced Chauvinistic turnof mind, since his advent at the Wilhelm-strasse to take charge of the empires deal-ings with foreign powers, Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter has swung into the center of thestage and quite obscured from the worldsview, for a time at least, the more mild-mannered, less assertive Imperial ChancelU)r.The Foreign Minister, who is nt)w in hisfifty-ninth year, is a Bavarian by birth,with fine social instincts. THEOPnilJi DELCA SSE \27
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THEOPHILE DELCASSE 1 F Delcasse, who is probably, take it all inall, the most celebrated diplomatist inEurope, is not officially at the helm of foreigna Hairs in France, it is because this would bean unnecessary offense .to Germany. Titlesare of minor importance. As Minister of-Marine, Delcasse is building up the Frenchnavy. He is, at the same time, the backboneand dominating spirit of the Caillaux Minis-try, and his hand may be seen in every movemade by the less assertive de Selves, who holdsthe foreign portfolio. It was Delcasse whobrought about the cordial understandingbetween France and Great Britain. It wasthis same finished, polished, secretive and tenacious Gallic statesman \\\\o precipitateclthe Moroccan crisis five years ago, and was\irtually forced to resign from the Ministryof Foreign Affairs to appease German wrath.His consuming passion is to bring about theeffective isolation of Germany and eliminateher from the chessboard of European diplom-acy. Delcasse is in his fifty-

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