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[315] Memoirs: William II.
[316] Grosse Politik.
[317] World Crisis: Winston S. Churchill.
[318] German Diplomatic Documents.
[319] Grosse Politik.
[320] Grosse Politik.
[321] Grosse Politik.
[322] King George V: Harold Nicolson.
[323] Grosse Politik.
[324] Grosse Politik.
[325] World Crisis: Winston S. Churchill.
[326] World Crisis: Winston S. Churchill.
[327] Lord Carnock: Harold Nicolson.
[328] Grosse Politik.
[329] When discussions on colonial matters were resumed a few months later, it became clear that Britain’s idea was to allow Germany to get a strangle-hold on Angola by financial loans to the hard-pressed Portuguese Government, in return for mortgates on the Angola colony. It was much the same plan that had been formulated in 1898. But this time it went further. In a supplementary treaty Sir Edward Grey implicitly agreed that if Portuguese mismanagement made it necessary for an outside power to move in to restore order, Britain would not come to Portugal’s aid.
[330] Grosse Politik.
[331] World Crisis: Winston S. Churchill.
[332] Deutschland Schuldig.
[333]German Diplomatic Documents: edited by E. T. S. Dugdale.
[334] King George V: Harold Nicolson.
[335] King George V: Harold Nicolson.
[336] Twenty-five Years: Viscount Grey of Fallodon.
[337] British Documents on the Origin of the War
[338] Further Pages of My Life: Bishop Boyd Carpenter.
[339] Betrachtungen zum Weltkriege: T. von Bethmann-Hollweg.
[340] Grosse Politik.
[341] Grosse Politik
[342] Grosse Politik.
[343] German Diplomatic Documents: edited by E. T. S. Dugdale.
[344] Grosse Politik.
[345] Der Potsdamer Kronat: Kurt Jagow.
[346] Kautsky Documents.
[347] Austrian Red Book.
[348] This assumption was correct. In after years it came to light that the assassination of the Archduke was organised by Colonel Dimitrijevic, Chief of the Intelligence Department of the Serbian General Staff, and head of the terrorist organisation The Black Hand. The Colonel recruited a group of poor, sickly teen-aged Serbian youths from Bosnia to kill the Archduke as an oppressor of the Serb people. Ironically enough, however, it was not the Archduke’s harshness but his leniency which induced the Colonel to mark him down as a victim. Dimitrijevic knew that the Heir-Apparent wished to give the Slavs a large share in the Austro-Hungarian Government and feared that his liberal attitude would deal a mortal blow to the movement for a Greater Serbia. He did not bother to acquaint his naive young assassins with the intricacies of his mind.
[349] Kautsky Documents.
[350] Austrian Red Book.
[351] Austrian Red Book.
[352] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[353] Leitfaden: Montgalas.
[354] Kautsky Documents.
[355] Kautsky Documents.
[356] British Documents on the Origin of the War.
[357] Kautsky Documents.
[358] Kautsky Documents.
[359] Kautsky Documents.
[360] Kautsky Documents.
[361] Kautsky Documents.
[362] Kautsky Documents.
[363] Kautsky Documents.
[364] British Documents on the Origin of the War.
[365] Austrian Red Book.
[366] Kautsky Documents.
[367] Kautsky Documents.
[368] Kautsky Documents.
[369] Kautsky Documents.
[370] Kautsky Documents.
[371] Kautsky Documents.
[372] Grosse Politik.
[373]Kautsky Documents.
[374] Memoirs: Admiral von Tirpitz.
[375] British Documents on the Origins of the War, When the British Blue Book was published in 1914 in order to reveal the part played by England in the negotiations leading to the war, this minute was expunged. However a reference to it inadvertently was left in the table of contents. A German scholar wrote to the Foreign Office in the spring of 1924, and asked for the missing passage. It was communicated to him with the permission of the Secretary of State.
[376] This was a reference to the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia in 1903.
[377] Kautsky Documents.
[378] Kautsky Documents.
[379] This bombardment was carried out by artillery from Austrian territory, which extended to within a few miles of the Serbian capital.
[380] Austrian Red Book.
[381]Kautsky Documents.
[382] Kautsky Documents.
[383] My Memoirs: Admiral von Tirpitz.
[384] According to Harold Nicolson: “Prince Henry, in after years himself admitted that, in the excitement of the moment, he may well have interpreted as a definite assurance what was no more than an incidental expression of an anxious hope.” — King George V.
[385] The Kaiser’s annotations on Grey’s telegram are dated July 30th.
[386] British Documents on the Origins of the War.
[387] Kautsky Documents.
[388] Kautsky Documents.
[389] Kautsky Documents.
[390] Kautsky Documents.
[391] From Bismarck to the World War: Erich Brandenburg.
[392] Schillings Diary.
[393] Schillings Diary.
[394] The whole plan of mobilisation is worked out ahead to its final conclusion and in all its details,” wrote General Dobrorolski, Chief of the Mobilisation Section of the Russian General Staff, in his memoirs. “…Once the moment is chosen, everything is settled; there is no going back; it determines mechanically the beginning of war.”
[395] Schillings Diary.
[396] Twenty-five Years: Viscount Grey of Falloden.
[397] Aus meiner Dienstzeit: Baron Conrad von Hotzendorf.
[398] Aus meiner Dienstzeit: Baron Conrad von Hotzendorf.
[399] Kautsky Documents.
[400] Kautsky Documents.
[401] Erinnerungen: H. von Moltke.
[402] In Lichnowsky’s Mission to London he explains that the misunderstanding arose because Grey’s suggestion involved not only Germany’s neutrality towards France but towards Russia as well.
[403] General Sir Henry Wilson outlined the Schlieffen plan to the British Cabinet in 1911, and the same year the plan was discussed at a Franco-Russian military conference.
[404] British Documents on the Origin of the War.
[405] Romania had secret commitments to the Triple Alliance.
[406] Germany: G. P. Gooch.
[407] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[408] The battle of the Masurian Lakes, fought from September 5th to 15th, was also a great victory, inflicting an equally decisive defeat on General Rennenkampf’s army.
[409] The German General Staff could not know that the British were marching into the gap by accident!
[410] World Crisis: Winston S. Churchill.
[411] Memoirs: Admiral von Tirpitz.
[412] Menschen und Bilder: General Freytag-Loringhoven.
[413] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[414] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[415] Memoirs: Admiral von Tirpitz.
[416] Memoirs: Admiral von Tirpitz.
[417] “It was not known,” wrote Harold Nicolson, whose father, Sir Arthur Nicolson, was head of the Foreign Office from 1910 to 1916, “that from September 8 to September 22, 1911, we were in constant expectation of hostilities, and that tunnels and bridges on the South Eastern Railway were being patrolled day and night.” Lord Carnock.
[418] World Crisis: Winston S. Churchill.
[419] These figures were greatly exaggerated.
[420] My Memoirs: Admiral Tirpitz.
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bsp; [421]The Life of Crown Prince William: Klaus Jonas.
[422] My Memoirs: Admiral Tirpitz.
[423] During 1915 the approximate total of dead, wounded, and captured was: French 1,300,000; German 600,000; British 400,000.
[424]Wangenheim was the President of the Farmers’ Union, and Count Schwerin-Lowitz President of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies; both men were Conservative members of the Reichstag.
[425] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[426] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[427] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[428] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[429] My Four Years in Germany: James Gerard.
[430] Twenty-five Years: Viscount Grey of Fallodon.
[431] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[432] An English Wife in Berlin: Princess Blücher.
[433] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[434] Twenty-five Years: Viscount Grey of Fallodon.
[435]It was not only “freedom of the seas” that pushed America into the war. The British Secret Service managed to get hold of a document revealing the attempt of Herr Zimmermann, the German Foreign Secretary, to secure an alliance with Mexico, in the event of the United States and Germany going to war; as inducements he was offering Mexico Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. This document, which also mentioned the possibilities of persuading Japan to take action against the United States, was published by the American Government on March 1st.
[436] An English Wife in Berlin: Princess Blücher.
[437] Memoirs: Admiral von Tirpitz.
[438] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[439] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[440] The Germans also captured 2,000,000 bottles of whisky.
[441] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[442] An English Wife in Berlin: Princess Blücher.
[443] An English Wife in Berlin: Princess Blücher.
[444] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[445] An English Wife in Berlin: Princess Blucher.
[446] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[447] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[448] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[449] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[450] An English Wife in Berlin: Princess Blucher.
[451] The Kaiser and His Court: Admiral von Müller.
[452] My Memoirs: William II.
[453] Memoirs: Max, Prince of Baden.
[454] Memoirs: Max, Prince of Baden.
[455] The authority for the agitated scenes on the morning of November 9th is Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan by Sir John Wheeler-Bennett.
[456] Kaiser und Revolution: Colonel A. Niemann.
[457] The Life of Crown Prince William: Klaus Jonas.
[458] An English Wife in Berlin: Princess Blucher.
[459] My Memoirs: William II.
[460] Peacemaking: Harold Nicolson.
[461] If Germany’s war guilt had not been admitted, Mr. Lloyd George told a London audience on March 3, 1921, the Versailles Treaty would have been untenable.
[462] Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett.
[463] World Crisis: Winston S. Churchill.
[464] Better Left Unsaid: Daisy, Princess of Pless.
[465] Contemporary Portraits: Winston S. Churchill.
[466] Contemporary Portraits: Winston S. Churchill.
[467]War Memoirs: David Lloyd George.
[468] The Life of Crown Prince William: Klaus Jonas.
[469] Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett.
[470] Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett.
[471] The Life of Crown Prince William: Klaus Jonas.
[472] The Life of Crown Prince William: Klaus Jonas.
[473] Hitler still regarded the monarchists as dangerous and feared that a plot against his regime might be hatched at Doom House. A conspiracy did begin in 1938 — not at Doom but in Berlin — organised by high army officers and members of the aristocracy. It ended in the abortive attempt on Hitler’s life in July 1944.
[474] Queen Mary: James Pope-Hennessy.
[475] Great Contemporaries: Winston S. Churchill.
[476]Comes the Reckoning: Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.