Vi bietet Ihnen eine diskrete Alternative. COUNTERCHARGES OF CHEATING Soon news also came from Ballin that the mat ter was not going well in England : that, according to information received, a dispute had arisen- about the agreement ; that there was disaction with Haldane, who, it was said, had let himself be cheated by Tirpitz  This was plain evidence of the indignation felt because Tirpitz had not walked into the trap and simply let the bill drop, and that Haldane had been unable to serve up the bill to the English Cabinet on a platter at tea timeFrom this the policy followed by him and the Foreign Office arose which led to the Agadir case, the last and equally unsuccessful attempt to main tain our influence in MoroccoI had been made acquainted with the dark side of the high-school system of education by my own school experiences BETHMANN Since his fellow countrymen thought that the re verse was true, one can but thank Admiral von Tirpitz most sincerely for having correctly asserted the German standpoint to the benefit of our fatherlandWalking with Ballin into the next room, I handed over the document for him to readThe predominantly philo logical character of the training led, in the whole educational system as well, to a certain one- sidednessThe details concerning it are deposited in docu ments at the Imperial Naval OfficeChurchill, to be sure, qualified in this, for he had been present a few times at the Imperial maneuvers in Silesia and Wurttemberg as a guest of the EmperorOwing to the primitive means of transportation, he went on, the lord of the land must sit all day on horseback and ride  THE KAISER'S MEMOIRS through his domain, having at his saddle bow the famous bag of sequins mentioned in all Oriental tales and legends, in order to sway public opinion in his favor in the places visited by the expected shower of goldQuartermaster-General Count Waldersee and I were present at the reading of this report From it came the resolve to shift Prussian troops east ward and to push toward completion the neglected railway systemAs was , I had c!
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 lasting relations in the regular course of events with the Ministry of PublicThese were remarkable achievements in the domain of bridge and lock construction, which aroused the admiration of the world ; in the matter of locks, for instance, those built at this time far surpassed the locks of the Panama Canal in sizeThe only means of communication with the east were the two antiquated trestle bridges at Dirschau and MarienburgBethmann was called up on the telephone and soon appearedIn other words, no youths who were consciously Germans were being turned outThose por tions of this canal which it had been possible to place in operation have fully met expectationsFrom the re ports relating to national defense and the com plaints of the General Staff, as well as from personal observation, I knew of the incredible neglect suffered by East Prussia in the matter of railways

