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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as been placed innew hands. Herr Gottheb von Jagow—pronouncedYah-go—was summoned from the Ambassadorshipin Rome at the beginning of 1913 to become thesuccessor of the late Herr von Kiderlen-Waechteras the nominal director of the Fatherlands externalrelations—nominal, be it noted, because the feaiis cherished that the appointment of a diplomatof stereotyped and limited experience denotes areturn to the conditions under which German ForeignSecretaries were mere clerks to more exaltedsuperiors. Forceful Kiderlen broke ^^dth that tra-dition. Von Jagows record and antecedents,though untarnished, hardly justify the behef thathe, too, will insist upon being chief of the Aus-wdrtiges Amt in more than name only. I have said that Herr von Jagow was summoned from Rome to succeed Kiderlen. Dragged is reallythe word, for it is an open secret that he came witha reluctance which almost bordered on insubordina-tion. The German Foreign Secretaryship is, without210 ».T O > t .>• N 4 » ,
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Ho/photog roph ) \Bieber, Berlin. VON JAGOW doubt, the least coveted portfolio in the wholeImperial Government. None offers so brilliant anopportunity to fail. None is so incessantly in thefierce Hmelight of carping criticism. It has beenthe graveyard of more than one reputation. Ofno Minister of the Kaiser are such herculean deedsexpected. On him rests the burden of gratifyingthe gnawing ambition of Germany for a place inthe sun. Two Foreign Secretaries within a decadedied in harness, overworked and nerve-shattered.Will Von Jagow succeed where Von Richthofen,Von Tschirschky, Von Schon and Von Kiderlen-Waechter failed ? Will he, too, in the pursuit ofhis countrys ardent desire for territorial expansion,accomplish nothing better than the addition ofthousands of square miles of Congo swamp to theKaisers realms ? Will he win another Heligolandfor the flag in one of the seven seas—in WalfischBay, or on the Persian Gulf ? Will he extendGermanys colonial frontiers in the Dark Continenttil

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