. Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany . d when to the ordinary burdensof Empire were added the heavy sacrifices inblood and treasure of a stubborn rebellion in South-West Africa. The able gentlemen of the green-tablesystem found, less to their indignation than to theirastonishment, that bureaucracy and colonising donot go hand in hand. Half a dozen Geheimrate andHerren Doktoren had been tried at the ColonialOffice. All had failed. The last to be found want-ing was a kinsman of the Kaiser himself. PrinceErnst von Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Dernburg, wasrelied upon to do for the colon
. Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany . d when to the ordinary burdensof Empire were added the heavy sacrifices inblood and treasure of a stubborn rebellion in South-West Africa. The able gentlemen of the green-tablesystem found, less to their indignation than to theirastonishment, that bureaucracy and colonising donot go hand in hand. Half a dozen Geheimrate andHerren Doktoren had been tried at the ColonialOffice. All had failed. The last to be found want-ing was a kinsman of the Kaiser himself. PrinceErnst von Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Dernburg, wasrelied upon to do for the colonies what he had madea reputation for doing as a rejuvenator of industrialand financial lame-ducks—to put them on their of a high order induced Dernburg todesert business for office. He gave up the managing-directorship of a great bank worth ;f 10,000 a year,and a dozen company directorships netting himhalf as much again, for a paltry Cabinet salary of;fi,250 and a glorious opportunity to fail. But the178 i 9 » > 3> » - - » J. {Diihrkoop, Berlin.
Size: 1320px × 1892px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublisherphila, bookyear1913
