The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-TimeWile, Frederic William
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The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time
Wile, Frederic William
World War, 1914-1918
cherished plan of his--to visit and lecture in the United States--and I
suppose the last interview he ever gave was one I had with him, in which
he spoke with enthusiasm of the American impressions he hoped to gather.
He was keenly interested in the corporation problem, recognized that it
contained evils with which Germany before long would have to cope, and
wanted to equip himself with first-hand knowledge of its ramifications
in the home of its highest development. Frank was not a fire-eating
German Social Democrat. He belonged to the moderate or "revisionist"
wing of the party. He was obsessed with no illusions as to the future
possibilities of Socialism in Germany and acknowledged that sane
democrats had long since abandoned hope of accomplishing anything more
than the establishment of a truly constitutional monarchy and
Parliamentary government. It is a thousand pities that Ludwig Frank has
not been spared to play his capable part in the political reconstruction
of Germany which, win or lose, is almost inevitably certain to follow
the war. Doctor Karl Liebknecht, that stormy petrel of German
Socialism, remained the one man to utter anti-war sentiment day in and
day out. Even the Government’s action in sticking him into field-gray
and dispatching him to the front for intermittent service failed to
check the flow of his invective. Liebknecht represents the Imperial
borough of Potsdam, of all places in the world, in the German
Parliament, but, though he has talked incessantly and voted
rebelliously, the voice of the representative of the Kaiser’s
congressional district was destined to remain as one crying in the
wilderness.
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