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"[Bülow's] contradictory utterances on the subject [Weltpolitik] suggest that it was little more than the old policy of the 'free hand' with a larger navy and more menacing mood music. 'We are supposed to be pursuing Weltpolitik,' the former chief of the General Staff Alfred von Waldersee noted grumpily in his diary in January 1900. 'If only I knew what that was supposed to be.'"