Word: autocrats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle. It is not that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat is always for his own skin, and there is no telling what sort of backfire another year of war might start at home. The governing classes in Germany know that dickering with the Bolshevlki is playing with fire so far as their own bureaucratic interests are concerned. --Boston Herald...
...outline the work and control the progress of those teams as a part of his University system. Often this has allowed men of in experience to act most ably as coaches where without the supervision of a responsible head the same men would have groped in the dark. Autocrat as he is supposed to be, it is significant that the selection of his men has invariably been the majority, if not the unanimous, selection of his coaches and the captain. Questions of policy and of selection are always matters openly discussed at coaches' meetings and seldom if ever...