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...Most famed utterance of any German statesman in the 20th Century was "Necessity knows no law" by Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to the Reichstag...
...intimately connected with the struggle, merely smash about at random with the pure joy of the iconoclast. Such a man is Prince von Bulow. In his recently published memoirs he violently attacks a man upon no greater provocation than that he told the truth. In the admission of Bethmann Hollweg that the German invasion of Belgium was a "breach of international law" Bulow finds a stunning tactical error. This may be true, but the Prince goes on to say that Bethmann should have had the political foresight to deny categorically the remark after it had been made. This also, from...
...looked. He spoke loud and long for Germany's need for territorial expansion, he obediently voted every increase in Germany's Imperial army. Throughout the War he was one of the Kaiser's most devoted followers, defending indiscriminate submarine warfare against the attacks of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. With the Armistice and the disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation lay in making friends with her former enemies. After a brief interval...
...diplomacy should be based on economics and publicity. After two years in the U. S. (1908-1910) as an attache, he saw much of the pre-War diplomacy-of-deception at St. Petersburg and in the Berlin Foreign Of- fice. For a time, he was personal secretary to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg. He fought in the War, being badly wounded. Following Germany's Revolution, he helped found the Democratic Club in Berlin but did not leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome as first councilor of the Embassy, where his firm...
...passage of the Federal Reserve Act; gives the impressions House formed of all the leaders of England, Germany and France; tells the methods of diplomacy which House used; tells a hundred incidents, such as how the imperturbable House lost his temper with the British Ambassador at Washington, how Von Bethmann-Hollweg explained his famous phrase, "a scrap of paper...