Word: weltpolitik
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...world politics. In the 1890's and 1900's Germany quickly rose to become the most powerful nation in Europe, and rivalled the United States and Russia in economic and military resources. Germany's downfall resulted not from economic decline, but from the foolishness of Wilhelm II's Weltpolitik, and provoking America into entering the war. Despite defeat in World War I, Germany still reigned. Hitler's rise to power in the 30's was followed by an expansionist German foreign policy, but his premature invasion of the Soviet Union and his rash declaration of war against the United States...
After receiving his A.M. from Harvard in 1920, Langer spent a year at the University of Vienna. His study of "The Decisive Years of German Weltpolitik: Germany's Relations with Russia and England, 1989-1920" won the Toppan Prize...
...economic framework of the New Deal automatically bars payment in goods or services. Gold payments are hardly desirable and very improbable. The Nazi "weltpolitik" and the Blue Eagle U. S. Navy construction, give the lie to linking debts with disarmament. It is the task of President Roosevelt to tell the country the true state of the war-debts rather than to permit the next due-date to arrive bringing no satisfaction but plenty of recriminations. The war-debt problem has become one of sanitation, not salvage...
...desire the rehabilitation of the Tsar's army (for which purpose Kitchener started to Russia), and entered into negotiations with the revolutionaries for the express purpose of demoralizing not only the military but the civil power. It is a matter of common knowledge that this insidious bit of weltpolitik was only too successful; and it hardly seems possible that Germany can escape the responsibility (as an act of war) for Kitchener's death...
...there are also other Americans who, unofficially, represent the U. S. in the East. One of them is Thomas F. Millard, a hard-headed imperialist thinking in terms of weltpolitik for a "parochially-minded" Republic. In China, where nearly every great power, except the U. S., subsidizes at least one newspaper, Mr. Millard founded and edited The China Press (Shanghai), Millard's Review (Shanghai), made himself the most eloquent American voice in the Far East...
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