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Dreadnought

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by Robert K. Massie


  4 “I often crossed over”: ibid., 73

  5 “Heavy on the water”: ibid., 49

  6 “When, as a little boy”: Bülow, II, 36

  7 “Believe me, Your Majesty”: ibid., 37

  8 “Today’s victory”: Magnus, 244

  9 “a marine Madame Tussaud’s”: Heckstall-Smith, 44

  10 “I can recall the portly figure”: ibid., 14

  11 “Propose abandon race”: Eckardstein, 45

  12 “old peacock”: Lee, I, 673

  13 “So, then, you’ll soon be off to India”: Magnus, 250

  14 “the Regatta used to be”: Eckardstein, 55

  15 “The Boss of Cowes”: ibid.

  16 “There’s no doubt about it”: Heckstall-Smith, 53

  17 “Half of them”: ibid., 52

  18 “If the Kaiser steered himself”: Bülow, II, 39

  19 “Nevertheless, as we approached Meteor”: Heckstall-Smith, 60

  Chapter 9

  Tirpitz and the German Navy Laws

  1 “because we do not have a fleet”: Herwig, 12

  2 “Who sold his last warship”: ibid., 16

  3 “sharp as jagged iron”: Tirpitz, Memoirs, I, 26

  4 “Sheer slop!”: ibid.

  5 “every man and every penny”: Herwig, Luxury Fleet, 14

  6 “our future is on the water”: Balfour, 206

  7 “Politics are your affair”: Hurd, 200

  8 “one is so far from the world”: Steinberg, 150

  9 “I was very mediocre”: Tirpitz, Memoirs, I, 2

  10 “Between 1864 and 1870”: ibid., 13

  11 “Don’t they look just like sailors”: ibid., 15

  12 “like a mechanic”: ibid., 47

  13 “It was a tossup”: ibid., 49

  14 “We do not know”: ibid., 39

  15 “the eleven best years”: ibid., 67

  16 “Here I have been listening to you”: ibid., 62

  17 “a crowd of ships”: ibid., 68

  18 “a high-minded man”: ibid., 60

  19 “displayed itself in a heterogeneous collection”: ibid., 61

  20 “Why was Nelson”: ibid., 76

  21 “like a gramophone record”: Steinberg, 72

  22 “a considerable force”: ibid., 83

  23 “My intentions... altered”: ibid., 85

  24 “Tirpitz was here”: ibid.

  25 “not a trace of enthusiasm”: ibid., 86

  26 “These are the facts”: ibid.

  27 “the Kaiser hopes to find”: ibid., 89

  28 “was lovely”: ibid., 96

  29 “Only the present State Secretary”: ibid.

  30 “He seems to be toying”: ibid., 109

  31 “and send the bill to the Reichstag”: ibid., 112

  32 “The Kaiser has no rights”: ibid.

  33 “Our doom”: ibid., 116

  34 “to seek out a place”: ibid., 103

  35 “I relinquished my command”: Tirpitz, Memoirs, I, 118

  36 Tirpitz’ June 1897 memorandum: Steinberg, 209–221

  37 “The Reichstag will never agree”: Hurd, 197

  38 “When I became State Secretary”: Tirpitz, Memoirs, I, 129

  39 “but there, money is of no importance”: ibid.

  40 “Every word of the draft Bill”: ibid., 126

  41 “With all the good will in the world”: Steinberg, 140

  42 Tirpitz interview with Bismarck: Tirpitz, Memoirs, I, 134

  43 “he liked the sailors... a hole in the shining coat”: ibid., 139

  44 “I smiled at them”: Hurd, 200

  45 “the development of our battle fleet”: Steinberg, 160

  46 “We are not thinking”: ibid., 164

  47 “Our fleet has the function”: ibid.

  48 “I find the totals”: ibid., 171

  49 “If the popular assembly allows”: ibid., 160

  50 “The present Reichstag”: ibid.

  51 “I considered it my duty”: Tirpitz, Memoirs, I, 143

  52 “All peoples”: Steinberg, 180

  53 “If it is true”: ibid., 194

  54 “There is, especially on the right side of this house”: ibid., 195

  55 “Long live the Kaiser... German Emperor, Berlin”: ibid., 196

  56 “is like the army”: ibid., 197

  57 “I declare expressly”: Hurd, 115

  58 preamble to the Second Navy Law: ibid., 121

  59 “the fare was homely”: Tirpitz, Memoirs, I, 210

  60 “With his swift comprehension”: ibid., 201

  61 “the air of the forest”: ibid., 205

  62 “I could never discover”: ibid., 128

  63 “For example”: ibid., 204

  64 “The naval policy of Germany”: Marder, I, 107

  65 “The... composition of the new German fleet”: ibid.

  66 “The Admiralty had proof”: ibid.

  PART 2: THE END OF SPLENDID ISOLATION

  Chapter 10

  Lord Salisbury

  1 “The Queen cannot conclude”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 39

  2 “His bitterest detractors”: Willoughby de Broke, 186

  3 “as if to discover”: Young, 100

  4 “an almost embarrassing wealth”: Asquith, Fifty Years, I, 273

  5 “an existence among devils”: Gwendolen Cecil, I, 9

  6 “I am bullied”: ibid., 13

  7 “I am obliged”: ibid.

  8 “Never were two men”: ibid., 49

  9 “It is the peculiarity of my complaint”: ibid., 50

  10 “Your prohibition”: ibid.

  11 “That which is my main expense”: ibid., 59

  12 “never left cards”: ibid., 63

  13 “First rate men”: ibid., 158

  14 “blazing indiscretions”: ibid., II, 21

  15 “returning to the cold and greasy remains”: ibid., I, 71

  16 “I dislike and despise”: ibid., 96

  17 “Ah, Robert, Robert”: ibid., 97

  18 “My impression”: ibid., II, 45

  19 “that half-madman”: Blake, 605

  20 “a Russian agent”: ibid., 607

  21 “Oh! if the Queen were a man”: ibid., 637

  22 “much of the trouble”: Blake, 577

  23 “I do not know”: Blake, 746

  24 “Der Alte Jude”: ibid., 646

  25 “Six hours of my day”: Gwendolen Cecil, II, 287

  26 “He looks ill and sleeps badly”: A. L. Kennedy, Old Diplomacy, 37

  27 “Prince Bismarck with one hand”: Crankshaw, 350

  28 “What with deafness”: Gwendolen Cecil, II, 287

  29 “very agreeable indeed”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 126

  30 “laboring oar”: Gwendolen Cecil, II, 297

  31 “Order of Chastity”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 371

  32 “France is... England’s greatest enemy”: Gwendolen Cecil, IV, 106

  33 “by sympathy, by interest, by descent”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 67.

  34 “Nous sommes des poissons”: E.T.S. Dugdale, I, 249; DGP, IV, 265

  35 “the sea and her chalk cliffs”: Bülow, II, 38

  36 “England’s strength”: Queen Victoria, III, 23

  37 “Splendid Isolation”: Gwendolen Cecil, IV, 86

  38 “the supremacy of the interests of England”: ibid., 89

  39 “British foreign policy”: Taylor, Essays in English History, 125

  40 “A great sleeper”: Gwendolen Cecil, II, 16

  41 “One subject only”: ibid., III, 210

  42 “Do whatever you think best”: ibid., II, 238

  43 “Buccaneers”: ibid., III, 208

  44 “he had left a madman”: ibid., 214

  45 “I was told”: ibid., 25

  46 “Our political arrangements”: ibid., IV, 219

  47 “left a nasty taste”: ibid., II, 15

  48 “Hey, diddle diddle”: ibid., III, 8

  49 “There were evenings”: ibid., 6

  50 �
��My father always treats me”: ibid., 12

  51 “N. has been very hard put to it”: ibid., 13

  52 “He may be able”: ibid.

  53 “What a dreadful thing”: Queen Victoria, I, 26

  54 “triumphant success”: ibid., 31

  55 “fortune would not be equal”: ibid., 34

  56 “Every day, I feel the blessing”: ibid., III, 37

  57 “if not the highest”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 9

  58 “I will not have the Queen worried”: Gwendolyn Cecil, III, 190

  59 “Always speak the truth to the Queen”: ibid., 181

  60 “everything”: ibid., 182

  61 “Lord Salisbury offers this suggestion”: Queen Victoria, III, 593

  62 “I am too horrified”: ibid., 396

  63 “Lord Salisbury entirely shares”: ibid., 397

  64 “Letter received”: ibid., I, 443

  65 “Sir—In furtherance of the conversation”: ibid., 442

  66 “She had an extraordinary knowledge”: ibid., III, 186

  67 “It appears that his head”: ibid., 398

  68 “hot-headed, conceited”: ibid., 441

  69 “He was simply afraid to do so”: ibid., 442

  70 “an enormous calamity”: Gwendolen Cecil, IV, 364

  71 “It is a curious Nemesis”: Queen Victoria, I, 591

  72 “this perfectly useless piece of rock”: E.T.S. Dugdale, I, 172; DGP, IV, 53

  73 “possession of Heligoland”: ibid., II, 37; ibid., VIII, 16

  74 “The conditions you enumerate”: Queen Victoria, I, 614

  75 “Lord Salisbury quite understands”: ibid.

  76 “Your answer respecting Heligoland”: ibid., 615

  77 “confidentially”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 220

  78 “It is wise”: Gwendolen Cecil, IV, 367

  79 “Lord Salisbury respectfully draws”: ibid., 371

  80 “Lord Salisbury hopes”: ibid.

  81 “His Majesty gave the English”: Steinberg, 76

  82 “William is a little sore”: Queen Victoria, II, 547

  83 “Your Kaiser seems to forget”: Eckardstein, 59

  84 “Seeking an outlet”: Holstein Papers, I, 161

  85 “By his boorish behavior”: E.T.S. Dugdale, II, 339

  Chapter 11

  The Jameson Raid and the Kruger Telegram

  1 “I would annex the planets”: Elizabeth Pakenham (Longford), 25

  2 “the Colossus”: Garvin, III, 31

  3 “my darling”: Rotberg, 14

  4 “On one occasion”: ibid., 89

  5 “younger and more fiery sons”: Elizabeth Pakenham (Longford), 22

  6 “What have you been doing”: ibid., 34

  7 “If there be a God”: Rotberg, 415

  8 “When a community”: The Times

  9 “The nostrils of a racehorse”: Elizabeth Pakenham (Longford), 59

  10 “The eyes of an affectionate dog”: ibid.

  11 “a Scotch terrier”: ibid.

  12 “we drew closely together”: Rotberg, 127

  13 “All the ideas are Rhodes’”: Elizabeth Pakenham (Longford), 63

  14 “Anyone could take the Transvaal”: ibid., 62

  15 “I’m going”: Rotberg, 539

  16 “CRISIS IN THE TRANSVAAL”: The Times, January 1, 1896

  17 “The position of thousands of Englishmen”: ibid.

  18 “There are girls in the gold-reef city”: The Times, January 11, 1896

  19 “an act of war”: Elizabeth Pakenham (Longford), 47

  20 “a peaceful arrangement”: ibid.

  21 “If it were supported by us”: ibid.

  22 “a little nation which was Dutch”: William II, My Memoirs, 80

  23 “If the child is ill”: Gooch, History of Modern Europe, 215

  24 “To threaten us”: Balfour, 192; DGP, XI, 7

  25 “Our little republic”: E.T.S. Dugdale, II, 365

  26 “contrary to German interest”: ibid., 367; DGP, XI, 4

  27 “The status... is one”: Carroll, 366

  28 “We will wash”: ibid.

  29 “needed no instructions”: ibid.

  30 “had gone so far”: E.T.S. Dugdale, II, 368

  31 “absolutely blazing”: Balfour, 194

  32 “if it had been anyone else”: Steinberg, 83

  33 “Now suddenly”: Lee, I, 725

  34 “His Majesty developed”: Holstein Papers, II, 469

  35 “‘That would mean war’”: Lee, I, 721

  36 “Oh, no, don’t you interfere”: Holstein Papers, I, 162

  37 “I express my sincere congratulations”: Lee, I, 722

  38 “I express to Your Majesty”: ibid.

  39 “Nothing that the government has done”: Carroll, 372

  40 “universal delight”: Röhl, 166

  41 “tempestuous”: Bülow, IV, 665

  42 “crude and vehement”: ibid.

  43 “tore his hair”: Eckardstein, 86

  44 “England, that rich and placid nation”: Holstein Papers, I, 160

  45 “answered... in accordance with German public feeling”: Lee, I, 727

  46 “eine Staats-Aktion”: ibid., 722

  47 “an expression of the Kaiser’s annoyance”: Holstein Papers, I, 160

  48 “The Jameson Raid caused”: William II, My Memoirs, 80

  49 “The nation will never forget”: Lee, I, 723

  50 “England will concede nothing”: The Times, leader, January 7, 1896

  51 “With respect to the intervention”: The Times, January 7, 1896

  52 “to have an additional squadron”: ibid., January 9, 1896

  53 “this most gratuitous act”: Balfour, 195

  54 “Those sharp, cutting answers”: Queen Victoria, III, 20

  55 “My dear William”: Lee, I, 724–25

  56 “is entirely suited”: ibid., 725

  57 “hint to our respectable papers”: Queen Victoria, III, 13

  58 “Most beloved Grandmama”: Lee, I, 725

  59 “without enquiring too narrowly”: Queen Victoria, III, 20

  60 “I should like to hear”: Bülow, I, 340

  61 “You see, I was a naughty boy”: Elizabeth Pakenham (Longford), 99

  62 “should probably have joined Jameson”: Young, 173

  63 “Dr. Jim had personal magnetism”: Margot Asquith, III, 26

  64 “excess of zeal”: Elizabeth Pakenham (Longford), 119

  65 “Old Jameson”: Rotberg, 523

  66 “Neither”: ibid., 550

  67 “As to one thing”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, I, 198

  68 “Do not tell me”: Rotberg, 390

  69 “Thank goodness”: Elizabeth Pakenham (Longford), 256

  70 “So little done”: ibid., 158

  71 “The Jameson Raid”: Eckardstein, 85

  72 “in his telegram to Kruger”: Bülow, IV, 665

  73 “England will not forget”: ibid., 664

  74 “The incident may have its good side”: Tirpitz, Memoirs, I, 85

  75 “the outbreak of hatred”: ibid., 86

  Chapter 12

  “Joe”

  1 “The Republic must come”: Garvin, I, 152

  2 “The Divine Right of Kings”: ibid., 467

  3 “Lord Salisbury constitutes himself”: ibid., 392

  4 “a Sicilian bandit”: ibid., II, 80

  5 “My impression”: ibid., I, 467

  6 “In that case”: ibid.

  7 “I would advise him”: ibid.

  8 “round the garden walks”: Morley, Recollections, I, 148

  9 “swell”: ibid., 179

  10 “Here in England”: Lee, I, 333

  11 “it seems almost impossible”: Garvin, I, 79

  12 “Unfortunately, it wasn’t true”: ibid., 209

  13 “a man who never told the truth”: ibid., 227

  14 “Radical demagogue”: Magnus, 131

  15 “His strength in debate”: Spender, The Public Life, I, 88
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br />   16 “watched him and wondered”: ibid., 89

  17 “a man of obvious mystery”: ibid., 86

  18 “the Irish people are entitled”: Garvin, II, 21

  19 “It was mischievous or worse”: ibid., 147

  20 “To preserve the Union”: ibid., I, 140

  21 “It was unthinkable”: Spender, The Public Life, I, 88

  22 “Judas, after betraying his Master”: Garvin, II, 480

  23 “Traitorl”: ibid., 250

  24 “no fraternizing”: Spender, The Public Life, I, 88

  25 “Dear lady, welcome home”: Garvin, II, 371

  26 “Mrs. Chamberlain is very pretty”: ibid., 372

  27 “Mrs. Chamberlain looked lovely”: ibid.

  28 “was always ready to discuss politics”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 255

  29 “She unlocked his heart”: Garvin, II, 373

  30 “She brought my children nearer”: ibid.

  31 “must have been dear and refreshing”: ibid., 563

  32 “proud to call myself a Unionist”: Garvin, II, 607

  33 “frenzied enthusiasm”: ibid., 334

  34 “I am an Englishman”: ibid., 333

  35 “Already the weary Titan”: Asquith, Fifty Years, I, 290

  36 “Prince Bismarck has rendered us”: Garvin, I, 496

  37 “this incarnate representative”: ibid.

  38 “I don’t like to be cheeked”: ibid., 497

  39 “saw work to be done”: ibid., III, 9

  40 “I believe that the British race”: ibid., 27

  41 “It is not enough to occupy”: ibid., 19

  42 “My dear Salisbury”: ibid., 95

  43 “an ostentatious order”: ibid., 96

  44 “The shadow of war”: ibid., 179

  45 “If the panic”: Eckardstein, 93

  46 “Chamberlain has rather risen”: Garvin, III, 244

  47 “two-headed administration”: ibid., 203

  48 “Chamberlain has Salisbury”: ibid., 286

  49 “Affairs now are so difficult”: Queen Victoria, III, 22

  50 “Isolation is much less dangerous”: ibid., 21

  51 “public opinion”: ibid., 248

  52 “I agree with you”: ibid., 249

  53 “It is not a question”: Asquith, Fifty Years, I, 290

  54 “unquestionably the most energetic”: Eckardstein, 103

  55 “The English fleet”: Garvin, III, 262

  56 “would have to show himself”: ibid., 257

  57 “I admitted”: ibid., 260

  58 “if I thought that Parliament”: ibid.

  59 “The Jubilee swindle”: ibid., 269

  60 “At the same time”: ibid., 270

 

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