Word: junkertum
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...house to Bolshevism. Having more brains than the Bourbons and Tories, the real Bolsheviki have perceived from the outset that their real enemy was Wilsonism. That is why they unhesitatingly chose German autocracy as an ally and why they have resisted the President's program as bitterly as Junkertum itself...
...line between the German government and the German people, as though that powerful people were burdened like any group of serfs with a government which held them in close subjugation. Some months ago we could blithely believe that, and pity those seventy millions who were bound so harshly by Junkertum to the wheel of war. But the history of the world as man constitutes it shows that a like view is fallacious. No cabal of autocratic rulers could have forced a nation, either by lies or threats or cajoling, to that unity for sacrifice which has come over the German...
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