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"What I can't get at even yet," said Gorman, "is the idea in the Emperor's mind. He piles up scrap iron and ridiculous-looking cisterns in a cave. He deluges the place with petrol. He sets a spy on Donovan. Now what the devil does he do it for?" The King shrugged his shoulders. "Real Politik, perhaps," he said. "But how do I know? I am a king, certainly.
He had become a workman industrious, inquisitive, determined. Under the guidance of von Stinnes he had managed to penetrate the heart of German politik.
"Again and always the Emperor. All roads lead to Rome. All Real Politik brings us in the end back to the Emperor." "My idea," said Gorman, "would be, to choose a small island, quite a small one, so small that the Emperor wouldn't notice it was gone. As a matter of fact I expect a small island would suit Donovan better than the whole country.
Bernhardi: Geschichte Russlands und der europäischen Politik im XIX^ten Jahrhundert.
If real politics lead to trouble over places like Salissa I prefer our home-made imitation. But Real Politik or not, the thing's done; so what's the good of the Emperor talking?" "The Emperor," said the King, "says 'Buy back. Take again your island. Foot no, it is foot of a horse hoof, or boot away the American. Give him his price and let him go. And I cannot.
This war is tragedy and sacrifice for most of the world, for the Germans it is simply the catastrophic outcome of fifty years of elaborate intellectual foolery. Militarism, Welt Politik, and here we are! What else could have happened, with Michael and his infernal War Machine in the very centre of Europe, but this tremendous disaster? It is a disaster.
A distinguished German publicist, criticising this overpowering interference of the state, writes: "Mir ist wohl bewusst dass diese Gedanken einst weilen fromme Wünsche bleiben werden: die Schatten lähmender Müdigkeit die fiber unserer Politik lagern, lassen wenig Hoffnung auf fröhliche Initiative. Allein immer kann und wird es nicht so bleiben."
He gazes upon the land and upon the sea with the same covetous steadiness, for he has become of late a maritime eagle, and has learned to box the compass. He gazes north and south, and east and west, and is inclined to look intemperately upon the waters of the Mediterranean when they are blue. The disappearance of the Russian phantom has given a foreboding of unwonted freedom to the Welt- politik.
Every lady, he said, should have some knowledge of history, and sufficient acquaintance with the three kinds of politics, Politik, Weltpolitik, and Realpolitik, to enable her to avoid wrong and frivolous conclusions such as the one the young Fraulein had just informed them she had reached, and to listen intelligently to her husband or son when they discuss these matters.
In the index to Treitschke's Politik, under the word War, one reads the following headings 'its sanctity'; 'to be conceived as an ordinance set by God'; 'is the most powerful maker of nations'; 'is politics par excellence'. Two functions, says Treitschke, the state exists to discharge; and these are to administer law, and to make war.
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