THE BUFFER STATE OF THE NORTH
As Germany has provided herself with a buffer state and ally in
Southern Europe, meaning Turkey, so she has cleverly succeeded in
creating a similar condition in the extreme north of Europe. Sweden
and Norway, at no time friendly to the Moscovite--you need only recall
the days of Charles XII--have within the last few years developed a
strong martial feeling against Russian aggression. Both countries are
intensely patriotic and independent and would not on any account
tolerate incorporation. Germany does not want Norway and Sweden, and
Scandinavia knows that. They also know that Russia, having a free
hand, does want them. Hence they are looking towards Germany to keep
a national independence. With German help, Sweden and Norway could
maintain, transport and place three-quarters of a million of
first-class fighting men in the field and that at strategical and
crucial points of the Russian Empire.
The personal domination of the house of Hohenzollern even outside
political matters is tremendous, by virtue of great wealth and
marriages,--the Emperor's sons having married the most wealthy
princesses in Europe--besides the privately invested fortunes of the
Emperor, giving him a tremendous in fluence in commercial affairs.
Wilhelm holds the thunderbolt that will shake the world.
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