47 “in full evening dress”: Zedlitz-Trützschler, 252
48 “It is an unusual experience”: ibid., 253
49 “Be really kind and gentle”: Bülow, II, 420
50 “in such a depressed, pessimistic mood”: Jarausch, 60
51 “Uninfluenced by the exaggerations”: Bülow, II, 423
52 “grasped my hand”: ibid., 424
53 “I’ve managed”: ibid.
54 “Must the Emperor abdicate?”: ibid., 430
55 “I rushed upstairs”: Crown Prince William, 99
56 “The Emperor made no attempt”: Cowles, 271
57 “left in the lurch”: ibid., 273
58 “I became the scapegoat”: Jarausch, 61
59 “You will understand”: Balfour, 292
60 “solely and exclusively”: Terence Cole, “The Daily Telegraph Affair3,” in Röhl and Sombart, Kaiser Wilhelm II: New Interpretations, 263
61 “Pharisee!”: ibid.
62 “I walked up and down”: William II, My Memoirs, 117
63 “I could not continue”: Bülow, II, 498
64 “shown sufficient energy”: ibid., 499
65 “Froben... would not have spoken”: ibid., 500
66 “Which simply means”: ibid., 501
67 “This frank conversation”: William II, My Memoirs, 117
68 “I’ve just been having it out”: Bülow, II, 502
69 “Have just forgiven Bülow”: ibid., 503
70 “How happy I am”: ibid.
71 “As a matter of fact”: Bülow, II, 575
72 “As far as domestic policy is concerned”: ibid.
73 “You leave foreign policy to me”: ibid.
74 “I had the peculiar sensation”: ibid., 578
75 “I feel even worse”: ibid., 592
76 “You mustn’t think”: ibid.
77 “I decided to acquiesce”: William II, My Memoirs, 119
78 “This is where”: Mansergh, 149
Chapter 38
Naval Talks and Bethmann-Hollweg
1 “no ordinary man”: Lee, I, 774
2 “an open mind”: Bülow, I, 493
3 “I always felt, with Metternich”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 236
4 “every Englishman would spend”: Lloyd George, I, 17
5 “Leave it to the police”: ibid.
6 “most ready to meet Germany half way”: ibid., 19
7 “Such insolent talk”: ibid., 17
8 “First-class cheek!”: ibid., 18
9 “We should look upon that”: ibid., 20
10 “Bravo! Metternich!”: ibid., 22
11 “the naval question”: ibid., 23
12 “This is talk”: ibid., 25
13 “This sort of conversation”: ibid., 26
14 “The English are afraid”: Woodward, 169
15 “will just have to get used to”: Balfour, 284
16 “But you must build slower”: ibid., 286
17 “then we shall fight”: Bülow, II, 358
18 “I looked him straight in the eye”: DGP, XXIV, 127–28
19 “I beg Your Majesty”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 268
20 “I must ask Your Excellency”: ibid., 270
21 “Our duty is to arm”: Woodward, 200
22 “The possibility of preventive war”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 172
23 “The cardinal point”: DGP, XXVIII, 18
24 “Feeling that”: Bülow, II, 465
25 “our Navy”: ibid., 485
26 “Five to six years”: Spender, Fifty Years, 326
27 “pooh-poohed my fears”: Bülow, II, 490
28 “An entente on the Naval Question”: ibid., 565
29 “all the qualities”: Lamar Cecil, Ballin, 122
30 “Bülow’s revenge”: Jarausch, 68
31 “I do not know”: ibid., 11
32 “I cannot believe”: ibid., 27
33 “late at night”: ibid., 28
34 “looked like a summer overcoat”: William II, My Early Life, 136
35 “This little episode”: Jarausch, 35
36 “I spent many happy hours”: William II, My Early Life, 135
37 “esteem for the diligence”: William II, My Memoirs, 120
38 “One day I’ll make a minister”: Jarausch, 40
39 “It disconcerts me”: ibid., 53
40 “a man of strong gifts”: ibid.
42 “I cannot work with him”: ibid.
43 “grave doubts”: ibid., 66
44 “Dear Theo”: ibid., 70
45 “Only a genius”: ibid., 66
46 “Your Excellency is not only”: ibid., 60
47 “It was a pleasure for me”: William II, My Memoirs, 121
48 “He laid down the law”: ibid., 127
49 “The idea that he could ally himself”: Jarausch, III
50 “If you cannot avoid”: ibid., III
51 “England had firmly taken”: Bethmann-Hollweg, 15
52 “I respectfully protest”: Bülow, III, 7
53 “Your proposal won’t work”: Lamar Cecil, Ballin, 173
54 “It would be almost incomprehensible”: Woodward, 276
55 “I want a good understanding”: ibid., 272
56 “The English friendship with France”: ibid., 278
57 “siren song”: ibid., 284
58 “The appetite of this monster”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 215
59 “I see quite as clearly”: Woodward, 284
60 “An indispensable preliminary condition”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 223
61 “England and Germany together”: ibid., 224
62 “He reminded me”: ibid., 225
63 “I consider any control”: Schmitt, 188
PART 5: THE ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON
Chapter 39
Agadir
1 “a typical Württemberger”: Holstein Papers, II, 174
2 “a tool of Holstein”: Bülow, IV, 627
3 “Kiderlen was to Holstein”: ibid., I, 15
4 “the Oyster-fiend”... “the Troubador”... “Spätzle”: ibid., 35
5 “I am to pull”: Gooch, “Kiderlen, Man of Agadir,” in Studies in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 132
6 “a general outburst of hilarity”: Bülow, II, 413
7 “Kiderlen’s debacle... Swabian accent... yellow waistcoat”: ibid.
8 “Just leave foreign policy to me”: ibid., 575
9 “The new Chief”: Gooch, “Kiderlen, Man of Agadir,” in Studies in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 137
10 “Bethmann is a soft nature”: ibid., 139
11 “You are putting a louse in the pelt”: ibid., 140
12 “Really?” “No, thank God, never!”: Lamar Cecil, German Diplomatic Service, 167
13 “Dickkopf”... “Regenwurm”: ibid., 312
14 “So. Do you think he tells me more?” ibid., 313
15 “the special political interests”: Schmitt, 306
16 “exceedingly fertile”: Pick, 23
17 “Do not doubt”: Jarausch, 120
18 “in Casablanca”: Carroll, 645
19 “If you go to Fez”: Schmitt, 313
20 “And yet it will not work”: Jarausch, 121
21 “Full liberty of action”: ibid., 122
22 “exceedingly fertile”: Pick, 23
23 “extremely grave difficulties”: Jarausch, 121
24 “no one can prevent Morocco”: ibid.
25 “Go and see Kiderlen”: Gooch, “Kiderlen, Man of Agadir,” in Studies in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 145
26 “French opinion would not stand for it”: ibid.
27 “one could look elsewhere”: Schmitt, 315
28 “Bring something back”: Gooch, “Kiderlen, Man of Agadir,” in Studies in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 145
29 “The big space”: William II, My Memoirs, 138
30 “Dolls’ House”: Haldane, Autobiography, 224
31 “To tell th
e truth”: William II, My Memoirs, 141
32 “We will never make war”: Carroll, 659
33 “France would bleed”: Pick, 15
34 “We will have to take”: Jarausch, 122
35 “We cannot leave Morocco”: ibid.
36 “During the Kiel Regatta Week”: William II, My Memoirs, 142
37 “Ships approved”: Carroll, 654
38 “Endangered German”: Pick, 21
39 “Some German firms”: Schmitt, 317
40 “Hurrah! A deed!”: Carroll, 656
41 “Action at last”: ibid.
42 “un joli morceau”: Schmitt, 315
43 “We are seizing this region”: Carroll, 656
44 “Little by little”: Jarausch, 121
45 “serious colonial compensation”: ibid., 122
46 “The more silent we are”: Carroll, 650
47 “Eh bien?” ibid., 659
48 “The German Government”: Schmitt, 318
49 “had not taken any overt step”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 215
50 “could not be a disinterested one”: ibid., 214
51 “our treaty obligations”: ibid.
52 “What is Germany driving at?”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 240
53 “This is a test of strength”: Carroll, 667
54 “make some communication”: Barlow, 293
55 “long ignorance and silence”: ibid.
56 “whether German troops are landed”: ibid.
57 “not in a position”: Schmitt, 325
58 “I found a different man”: Winston Churchill, World Crisis, I, 46
59 “When the rude indifference”: Lloyd George, I, 40
60 “I was suddenly told”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 215
61 The description of Lloyd George’s Mansion House speech is drawn from ibid., 216
62 “Lloyd George was closely associated”: ibid., 217
63 “Whenever a country occupies”: Carroll, 669
64 “The German people refuse”: ibid., 670
65 “Hands off!”: ibid.
66 “If the English Government had intended”: Schmitt, 331
67 “to protect German interests”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 218
68 “I observed that I had not”: ibid.
69 “I observed that there were no Germans”: ibid.
70 “not a man had been landed”: ibid.
71 “That speech had been interrupted”: ibid., 220
72 “If, after the many provocations”: ibid., 221
73 “had said that it was not consistent”: ibid., 222
74 “walking by the fountains”: Winston Churchill, World Crisis, I, 47
75 “I have just received a communication”: ibid., 48
76 “we are dealing with a people”: BD, VII, 625
77 “vanished into the desolate wastes”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 243
78 “At the end of three days”: Barlow, 290
79 “You know the Emperor pretty well”: ibid., 291
80 “Supposing the High Seas Fleet”: Gretton, 37
81 “Practically everybody of importance”: Randolph Churchill, II, 515
82 “On the afternoon of July 27”: Winston Churchill, World Crisis, I, 50
83 “exceedingly friendly”: Schmitt, 333
84 “Conversations are proceeding”: ibid.
85 “Peace or war”: Carroll, 672
86 “we are not going to stand”: ibid., 679
87 “The Germans at first”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 223
88 “where the fever bacillus and the sand flea”: Carroll, 683
89 “Has the spirit of Prussia perished?”: Pick, 32
90 “The last class of reserves”: Carroll, 648
91 “If we slink out”: ibid., 684
92 “I do not believe”: Gooch, “Kiderlen, Man of Agadir,” Studies in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 150
93 “The Kaiser was very humble”: Jarausch, 123
94 “Kiderlen informs nobody”: ibid., 122
95 “I am not going to dance attendance”: Carroll, 678
96 “We will insist”: ibid., 679
97 “Not be satisfied”: ibid.
98 “What the devil will happen”: DGP, XXIX, 178
99 “A mon terrible ami”: Gooch, “Kiderlen, Man of Agadir,” in Studies in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 155
100 “Almost a fiasco for Germany”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 233
101 “the last nail”: Carroll, 692
102 “Without acquiring anything”: ibid., 698
103 “deplorable...”: Bülow, III, 98
104 “throughout this whole diplomatic campaign”: ibid., 99
105 “a considerable increase”: Schmitt, 338
106 “an important dispute with France”: ibid.
107 “We expect no praise”: Jarausch, 124
108 “The silence was like that of the grave”: Carroll, 693
109 “Like a flash in the night”: Schmitt, 338
110 “My conscience lets me sleep”: Jarausch, 125
111 “If I had driven toward war”: ibid., 126
112 “My dear friend”: ibid.
113 “I thought he looked ill”: Bülow, III, 99
Chapter 40
“I Do Believe That I Am a Glowworm”
1 “I beg your pardon”: Haldane, Autobiography, 227
2 “Our Navy is not worth”: Maurice, 288
3 “The fact is”: Gretton, 40
4 “puerile and I have dismissed it”: Williamson, 193
5 “In 1911 I had begun to feel”: Haldane, Autobiography, 236
6 “By the twentieth day”: Bonham-Carter, 184
7 “Are you sure”: Randolph Churchill, II, 513
8 “As I entered the drive”: Haldane, Autobiography, 230
9 “He and my father played golf”: Bonham-Carter, 188
10 “Mr. Asquith... asked me”: Winston Churchill, World Crisis, I, 67
11 “Hear, O Israel”: ibid., 68
12 “it seemed a message”: ibid., 69
13 “Then he appeared to become”: Bonham-Carter, 3
14 “We are all worms”: ibid., 4
15 “We seemed to live in a whirl”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 112
16 “Mrs Everest it was”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 5
17 “a dark, lithe figure”: ibid., 4
18 “She had a forehead like a panther’s”: Margot Asquith, I, 131
19 “in Ireland... in a riding habit”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 4
20 “The neglect and lack of interest”: Randolph Churchill, I, 43
21 “Most infants are loved for themselves”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 117
22 “I hated this school”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 12
23 “In the middle of the room”: Randolph Churchill, I, 52
24 “who on heroic occasions”: Morley, Gladstone, I, 28
25 “I was allowed to learn things”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 13
26 “Will you come and see me”. Manchester, Winston Churchill, 134
27 “I was very disappointed”: ibid.
28 “I should have liked to be asked”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 15
29 “I found I was unable”: ibid.
30 “We were considered such dunces”: ibid., 16
31 “Do try to get Papa to come”: Randolph Churchill, I, 119
32 “I would go down to you”: ibid., 124
33 “I have only read one page”: ibid., 156
34 “My darling Mummy”: ibid.
35 “Darling Mummy:... I am so wretched”: ibid., 158
36 “he makes as much fuss”: ibid., 160
37 “For years I thought my father”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 19
38 “Capture seemed certain”: ibid., 29
39 “My dear Winston”: Randolph Churchill, I, 188
40 “While walking along Wish Stream”: ibid., 212
41 “At Sandhurst I had a new start”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 43
42 “It is quite easy, dear Mamma”: Randolph Churchill, I, 207
43 “When you have had a boil”: ibid., 82
44 “There was no curtain”: ibid., 226
45 “gleams of hate”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 205
46 “Do remember”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 32
47 “All my dreams of comradeship”: ibid., 62
48 “a severe mental disease”: Randolph Churchill, I, 226
49 “My jacket was wet”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 72
50 “I was now in the main”: ibid., 62
51 “Raise the glorious flag again”: ibid., 60
52 “I was now in my twenty-first year”: ibid., 62
53 “Found Mamma and Count Kinsky”: Randolph Churchill, I, 141
54 “There is nothing more exhilarating”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 228
55 “I cannot believe”: ibid., 234
56 “palatial bungalow”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 106
57 “The Spanish ships I cannot see”: Randolph Churchill, I, 282
58 “If you can get me good letters”: ibid., 329
59 “The Himalayas”: Winston Churchill, The Story of Malakand Field Force, 2
60 “Bright sunlight shining”: ibid., 141
61 “about 200 misprints, blunders”: ibid., 365
62 “I had never been praised before”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 154
63 “My dear Winston”: ibid., 155
64 “I had written them”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 259
65 “You must work for Egypt”: ibid., 263
66 “Oh, how I wish”: Randolph Churchill, I, 371
67 “left no wire unpulled”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 151
68 “Do not want Churchill”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 263
69 “not only for its matter”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 164
70 “If there is anything”: ibid.
71 “Dear Lord Salisbury”: Randolph Churchill, I, 378
72 “filthy tramp”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 267
73 Churchill’s account of the Battle of Omdurman is taken from A Roving Commission, 171–196
74 “Come and see me”: Randolph Churchill, I, 407
75 “cloaked from end to end”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 298
76 “When one is alone and unarmed”: Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission, 252
77 “We’re not going to let you go”: ibid., 258
78 “Englishman 25 years old”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 309