The Early Life of Moltke
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Excerpt from The Early Life of Moltke: A Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford, May 10, 1918 During the winter of 1884-5 I had occasion to be a frequent visitor to the German Reichstag in Berlin. The house in those days had the form of a Greek theatre. On the stage, which was raised six or seven feet above what in an ancient theatre would have been the orchestra, were the seats and tables of the President and the ministers, and a stair led down from the stage to the orchestra. The members´ seats were arranged in rising tiers round the semicircular floor of the orchestra, which was vacant except for the reporters´ table. There had just been a general election, so that it was a new Reichstag. At the first meeting, as soon as members were in their places, a tall officer in uniform walked up to the President´s table and stood erect, in an easy attitude, behind it. The buzz of talk was suddenly hushed and the officer said, ´The law requires that at the first meeting of a new Reichstag the oldest member should preside. I was born on the 26th of October, 1800. If no other member announces that he was born before that date I shall take the chair.´ After a short pause he sat down at the table and opened the proceedings for the election of a President. That oldest member was Field-Marshal Count Moltke, chief of the great general staff of the army. A few days later I passed him in the corridor of the House, and saw a face that I shall never forget. The skin was wrinkled and tanned like leather, so that it seemed like the mask of a mummy, a suggestion not belied by the smooth-lying brown hair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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