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
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
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