[The Audacious War by Clarence W. Barron]@TWC D-Link bookThe Audacious War CHAPTER XIV 2/9
It is a party of the empire, not of any world socialistic movement. Germany is thoroughly knit together in support of its government and its Kaiser.
The German people do not seek a constitutional government like England, or a republican form of government like France or the United States.
They believe their situation and safety in the middle of Europe call for a more autocratic form of government, and one not too quickly responsive to popular sentiment. Germany was made by Bismarck and the armies of Von Moltke supporting the Hohenzollern dynasty.
This made Prussia the center of Germany industrially, financially, and as a military power, and at the heart and seat of power, in both industry and finance, sits the same dynasty. The Emperor is the center of industry, finance, and military power,--three degrees of empire, each distinct in itself, but each intertwined with the others, but so intertwined that the word of power, command and influence comes down from the military seat of power through finance and into industry.
Industry does not speak back through the powers of finance to the military center.
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