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And the Kaiser Abdicates.
PUBLISHED BY THE YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
IN MEMORY OF
LIEUTENANT EARL TRUMBULL WILLIAMS
301ST UNITED STATES FIELD ARTILLERY
OF THE CLASS OF 1910 YALE COLLEGE
WHO DIED MAY 7TH 1918
AND THE KAISER
ABDICATES
THE GERMAN REVOLUTION
NOVEMBER 1918--AUGUST 1919
BY S. MILES BOUTON
WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GERMAN
COMMONWEALTH TRANSLATED BY
WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO AND
ARTHUR NORMAN HOLCOMBE
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REVISED EDITION
NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD : OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXXI
COPYRIGHT 1920, 1921 BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
_First published October, 1920._
_Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged,_
_September, 1921._
TO THE
HONORABLE IRA NELSON MORRIS
AMERICAN MINISTER TO SWEDEN
THE MAN, THE DIPLOMAT, AND THE LOYAL
FRIEND, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR
Contents.
Chapter I. The Governmental Structure of Germany. 17
Revolutions--Not unknown in Germany--Prussia and the
Hohenzollerns--Frederick the Great--Germany under foreign
domination--The Battle of the brotherhood of man--Lassalle's
national Socialists join the _Internationale_--Germany's
political backwardness--The war of 1870-71--Erection of the
German Empire--Why the Reichstag failed to become a real
parliament--The Emperor's powers as Kaiser and as King of
Prussia.