1. HL Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe:-
" As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
2.Mick Herron, Dead Lives:-
"...all the work's done low on the food chain. Everyone else just has meetings."
Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived in the form of The Weimar Republic (named after the city where
Kaiser Wilhelm II C.Clarke The Sleepwalkers (road to war) C.Clarke Ring of Steel (Germany and Austria at war) A.Watson The Three Emperors M.Carter Berlin (in 20th Century) S.M
Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became the policy of Weltpolitik, that is world politics; the attempt