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  • Ibsen was now greatly developing and expanding his views, and forming a world-policy of his own.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • Ibsen was now greatly developing and expanding his views, and forming a world-policy of his own.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The foreigner felt perhaps slightly uncomfortable when the same statesman, departing for a moment from his usual objective standpoint, spoke of the German "traversing the world with a sword in one hand and a spade and trowel in the other"; but otherwise no act of Germany's world-policy need have inspired alarm, or need inspire alarm at the present time, in sensible foreign minds.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • The world-policy may have been in embryo in his mind, but it was not born.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • The Emperor's world-policy was referred to more than once about this time by Chancellor Prince Bülow in the Reichstag.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • On yet another occasion he explained that a prudent world-policy must go hand in hand with a sound protective policy for home industry, and that its basis must be a strong national home policy.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • Nothing was more natural as a result of the new world-policy than a change in the mental outlook of the people.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • And if there is nothing in Germany's development of her world-policy to which the foreigner can reasonably object, there is much in it at which he can reasonably rejoice.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • "Our world-policy," he said on another occasion in the same place,

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • Simultaneously a new fact of vital importance for Germany's prosperity presented itself for consideration -- the growth of world-policy in trade, the expansion of commerce through the development caused by new conditions of transport and intercommunication in which other nations were already engaged.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

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