World War I
When, in January, 1919, I resigned my commission and made my way out to Berlin as correspondent for the _Daily News_, I had two purposes in view. One was to find out to what extent we had really won the war--in the only way it could be won--by forcing the German people into re...
When, in January, 1919, I resigned my commission and made my way out to Berlin as correspondent for the _Daily News_, I had two purposes in view. One was to find out to what ext...
3. CHAPTER IIJust a quarter of a century ago I arrived in Weimar fresh from Eton, and as a budding diplomatist was invited to dinner by the Grand Duke. The ceremony was a credit to the Court...
4. CHAPTER IIIThe first result of the failure of German Liberalism and of the Weimar Assembly was that revolution and reaction came into active collision with each other in the provincial cap...
5. CHAPTER IVThe mistake we are all making about Germany over here, and a very natural one, is that we can't realise what Germany to-day is like. While we are rapidly getting back to the mat...
6. CHAPTER VFrom its present position and at its present pace the Weimar Parliament will never overtake events. I remember once as a boy pointing out to a cavalcade in red coats jogging alo...
7. CHAPTER VIComing back from Germany to Great Britain one finds oneself in the position of an explorer returned from a new world. For our Edwardian England knows to-day as little of the rea...
8. CHAPTER VIILooking at the new German Constitution, without troubling about its inner meanings, and comparing it with the Constitution of 1871, we are struck at once by the very considerabl...