Excerpt from My Three Years in America
The policy of the free hand, which we pursued unt.' the outbreak of war, aimed at the highest possible re sults. Prince Biilow, who was the inaugurator of thi policy, might possibly have known how to steer 11 through the danger-zone without provoking was And then in a few years to come, we should have becom so strong and should have left the danger-zone so ver far behind us, that, as far as human judgment coul tell, we should no longer have had any need to fear was German naval construction from the beginning of th present century certainly made our relationship t England very much worse, while it also materially ir creased the danger of our position from the standpoir of world-politics. The biilow-tirpitz notion of a Risilu ?otte,' may, however, only have been practicable 0 condition that our diplomacy were sufficiently skilful t avoid war, as long as the risk idea in England we not able, of itself, to maintain peace.
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