In a word, we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.


speech in the Reichstag, 6 December 1897


In a word, we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.

In a word, we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.

In a word, we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.

In a word, we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.