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| [Preface] | v |
| I |
| [The Hohenzollern Tradition] | 1 |
| II |
[Preliminaries]
June 15, 1888—October 30, 1889. | 25 |
[The First Official Act of the Emperor]
Schloss Friedrichskron, June 15, 1888. | 25 |
[To My People]
Potsdam, June 18, 1888. | 28 |
[First Declaration of Policy]
Berlin, June 25, 1888. | 31 |
[Opening of the Reichstag]
November 22, 1888. | 39 |
[The Emperor and the Striking Miners]
May 14, 1889. | 45 |
[Visit of the King of Italy]
Berlin, May 22, 1889. | 47 |
[The English Fleet and the German Army]
Sandown Bay, August 5, 1889. | 48 |
[The English Army]
Aldershot, August 7, 1889. | 49 |
[The Czar at Berlin]
Berlin, October 11, 1889. | 50 |
[On Board an English Flag-Ship]
The Piræus, October 30, 1889. | 51 |
| III |
[After Bismarck]
May 6, 1890—June 21, 1895. | 53 |
[Opening of the Reichstag]
Berlin, May 6, 1890. | 53 |
[Review of the Ninth Army Corps]
Flensburg, September 4, 1890. | 60 |
[Accidents with Agricultural Machinery]
Berlin, November 11, 1890. | 62 |
[Alsace-Lorraine]
Berlin, March 14, 1891. | 66 |
[Swearing in the Recruits]
Potsdam, November 23, 1891. | 72 |
[The Emperor’s First Army Bill]
Berlin, July 4, 1893. | 75 |
[Arrival in Metz]
Metz, September 3, 1893. | 80 |
[Dedication of Flags]
Berlin, October 18, 1894. | 81 |
[Navy Recruits]
Kiel, December 3, 1894. | 84 |
[Christening of a Cruiser]
Kiel, March 26, 1895. | 86 |
[Visit to Bismarck]
Friedrichsruh, March 26, 1895. | 87 |
[Opening of the Emperor William Canal]
Kiel, June 21, 1895. | 91 |
| IV |
[The Beginning of World Politics]
June 16, 1896—March 22, 1905. | 95 |
[The Beginning of World Politics]
Berlin, June 16, 1896. | 95 |
[To the Recruits for the Navy]
Wilhelmshaven, February 21, 1896. | 103 |
[A Toast to the Russian Emperor and Empress]
St. Petersburg, August 8, 1897. | 104 |
[The Army Tradition]
Coblentz, August 30, 1897. | 106 |
[Toast to the Italian King and Queen]
Homburg, September 4, 1897. | 109 |
[Address at a Dedication of Flags]
Berlin, October 18, 1897. | 111 |
[On Administering the Oath to the Recruits]
Berlin, November 18, 1897. | 113 |
[The Chinese Situation and the Mailed Fist]
December 15, 1897. | 116 |
[Address to the Regiments of the Body-Guard]
Potsdam, June 16, 1898. | 121 |
[On the Death of Prince Bismarck]
Friedrichsruh, August 2, 1898. | 123 |
[“Our Future Lies Upon the Water”]
Stettin, September 23, 1898. | 126 |
[The Journey to the Holy Land]
Bethlehem, October 30, 1898. | 127 |
[Dedication of the Church of Our Redeemer]
Jerusalem, October 31, 1898. | 132 |
[By Divine Right]
Brandenburg, February 3, 1899. | 135 |
[The Hague Conference]
Wiesbaden, May 18, 1899. | 141 |
[The Housing of Laborers]
Early June, 1899. | 143 |
[French Heroism at St. Privat]
The Battle-field of St. Privat, August 18, 1899. | 143 |
| V |
| [The Greater Navy] | 147 |
[“Bitterly We Need a Powerful German Fleet”]
Hamburg, October 18, 1899. | 150 |
[On the Threshold of the New Century]
Berlin, January 1, 1900. | 154 |
[New Boundary Posts]
Berlin, February 13, 1900. | 157 |
[Seaports and Cannon]
Lübeck, June 16, 1900. | 159 |
[The Ocean Knocks at Our Door]
Kiel, July 3, 1900. | 160 |
[Open the Way for Culture]
Bremen, July 27, 1900. | 163 |
[Civis Romanus Sum]
Imperial Limes Museum, Saalburg, October 11, 1900. | 167 |
[Cabinet Order to the Prussian Army]
January, 1901. | 169 |
[Dedication of the Barracks of the Alexander Regiment]
March 28, 1901. | 171 |
[To the Students at Bonn]
April 24, 1901. | 174 |
[A Place in the Sun]
Hamburg, June 18, 1901. | 180 |
[The Great Elector]
Kiel, June 20, 1901. | 184 |
[Entrance of Prince Eitel Friedrich into the Army]
July 7, 1901. | 189 |
[True Art]
Berlin, December 18, 1901. | 191 |
[Monument to General von Rosenberg]
April 20, 1902. | 201 |
[The Old Order Changeth]
Aix, June 19, 1902. | 203 |
[Alfred Krupp and the Socialists]
November 26, 1902. | 209 |
[The Working Man Once More]
Breslau, December 5, 1902. | 213 |
[Scholarship and Religion]
Berlin, February 15, 1903. | 216 |
[Frederick the Great and His Army]
Döberitz, May 29, 1903. | 225 |
[The Future of Germany]
Hamburg, June 20, 1903. | 227 |
[The Reasons for Japan’s Victory]
March 9, 1905. | 232 |
[The Salt of the Earth]
Bremen, March 22, 1905. | 233 |
| VI |
[On the Eve of Morocco]
March 31, 1905—November 12, 1906. | 240 |
[The Morocco Question]
Tangier, March 31, 1905. | 240 |
[The Great Ally]
September 8, 1906. | 242 |
[Optimism and Literature]
Münich, November 12, 1906. | 247 |
[Twenty-Five Years of Labor Legislation]
November 17, 1896. | 253 |
| VII |
[The Crisis of 1907]
February 5, 1907—October 18, 1911. | 256 |
[Imperialism versus Social Democracy]
Berlin, February 5, 1907. | 256 |
[The Necessity of Faith]
Münster, August 31, 1907. | 259 |
[English Journalists]
London, November 16, 1907. | 264 |
[Alsace-Lorraine]
Strasburg, August 30, 1908. | 265 |
[The Daily Telegraph Interview]
October 28, 1908. | 267 |
[The Emperor and Count Zeppelin]
Manzell, November 10, 1908. | 273 |
[Regatta at Hamburg]
Hamburg, June 22, 1909. | 274 |
[Review of the Fourteenth Army Corps]
Karlsruhe, September 11, 1909. | 278 |
[Emperor by Divine Right]
Königsberg, August 25, 1910. | 279 |
[The Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the University of Berlin]
Berlin, October 11, 1910. | 285 |
[The Emperor in Brussels]
October 27, 1910. | 290 |
[Alcohol and the Schools]
Cassel, August 19, 1911. | 292 |
[International Competition]
Hamburg, August 27, 1911. | 295 |
[Imperial Glories]
Aix, October 18, 1911. | 299 |
| VIII |
[Last Months of Peace]
February 7, 1912—June 23, 1914. | 303 |
[Opening of the Reichstag]
Berlin, February 7, 1912. | 303 |
[Brandenburg Once Again]
May 30, 1912. | 307 |
[Hauling Down the Flag]
Hamburg, June 18, 1912. | 313 |
[Accident to a Zeppelin]
Bonn, October 17, 1913. | 316 |
[We Germans Fear God, Nothing Else]
Hamburg, June 23, 1914. | 318 |
| IX |
| [At the Outbreak of the War] | 323 |
[Forcing the Sword into His Hand]
Berlin, July 31, 1914. | 323 |
[An End of Parties]
Berlin, August 1, 1914. | 324 |
[Opening of the Reichstag]
Berlin, August 4, 1914. | 324 |
[To the Army and Navy]
Berlin, August 6, 1914. | 327 |
[Proclamation to the German People]
Berlin, August 6, 1914. | 328 |