Word: hollweg
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Subsequently, Sir Edward saw the agitated Imperial Chancellor, Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, who said that Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation just for the sake of the word "neutrality," just for the sake of "a scrap of paper." From that moment the phrase, "a scrap of paper," became an Allied slogan, fuel for the fire of warfare. It was Sir Edward Goschen who, in reporting the Chancellor's words, wrote himself into history, because the British Empire went to war to uphold the sanctity of inter national contracts and for other very good...
...which is ruled by necessity, as Bethmann-Hollweg, with commendable honesty remarked. Further justification we need not seek...
...these colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What are we to think of methods of teaching which shelve the present for the past, and of professors who imagine they are teaching history when four-fifths of their students do not know whether Winston Churchill or von Bethmann-Hollweg is Prime Minister of England?"--The New Republic...