Word: tirpitz
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...preparing for war? If so, with whom? Admiral Von Tirpitz, of the late Imperial German Navy, envisages an eventual Anglo-American conflict; he prophesied that German submarines would win the war. Congress has not halted its plans for increasing our forces on land, sea, or in the air; on the contrary, these plans have shown an opposite trend...
...feature of European revolutions that the wires are immediately cut. And then the game of pawns and kings goes on under cover of a rigid censorship. Yet the names of the players seem always to leak out. Those of von Jagow, von Tirpitz and Kapp cannot fail to stir up uneasy memories. It might be pertinent to recall that Lloyd George has not persuaded the Dutch to give up their royal guest. Amerongen is nearer to the scene of action than was Elba...
This is a very serious result. Von Tirpitz has sent to the bottom in one short year three times as many ships as have been put in commission by our own ship yards and those of England. The unfortunate disputes and delays in our shipping program have been partly responsible for this result, which has been so favorable for the U-boats...
...much blood and so many tears, it means that in time of war no nation must have a sea power superior to Germany's or capable of coping with German aggression. Yet when Germans solemnly protest that they are fighting for the freedom of the seas, it is the Tirpitz kind of freedom that they have in mind. New York World...
When Grand Admiral von Tirpitz says that "for real security we (Germans) should have, besides Flanders and Ant-werp, Calais and Boulogne," he defines Prussian theory of freedom of the seas...