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127 “We are sailing with a corpse”: q. Masur (see Chap. 4), 237.
128 Salisbury’s Guildhall speech: The Times, Nov. 10, 1897.
129 Czar and his mother’s chambermaids: q. David Shub, Lenin, 72.
130 Czar’s letter to his mother: Secret Letters of the Last Czar, ed. E. J. Bing, New York, 1938, 131.
131 Kuropatkin and genesis of Peace Conference: Witte, 96–97; Report of German Ambassador Radolin to Chancellor Hohenlohe, July 13, 1899, GP, XV, No. 4350; Dillon, conversation with Kuropatkin, 275–77.
132 “Keep people from inventing things”: q. White, II, 70.
133 “Except at the price of suicide,” et seq.: Bloch, xxxi, lxii, 349, 355–56.
134 British Ambassador’s report: Sir Charles Scott to Salisbury, Aug. 25, 1898, Cd. 9090.
135 “It is the greatest nonsense”: Warwick, 138.
136 Diplomatic reactions: GP, XV, Nos. 4223, 4224, 4236, 4237, 4248, 4249; also Foreign Office, Plunkett from Brussels, Jan. 11, 1899; Rumbold from Vienna, Feb. 3, 1899.
137 Kaiser, “Idiot”: GP, XV, No. 4233.
138 “To my People”: Pinson, 279; “When your Emperor commands”: ibid., 278; “There is only one master”: ibid.; “Me and my 25 army corps”: q. Bernadotte Schmitt, The Coming of the War, 1914, New York, 1930, I, 29; “Ally of my House”: q. Chirol, 275.
139 Prince of Wales, “how different” and not so absurd: q. White, II, 113–14.
140 Kaiserin on Kaiser’s annoyance: Bülow, I, 275; Eulenberg quoted: ibid. 241 Kaiser’s telegram to Czar and subsequent comments: GP, XV, Nos. 4222, 4216, 4228, 4231.
141 Muraviev told Eulenberg: ibid., 4231.
142 Kuno Francke pictured Germany: “German Ideals of Today,” Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1905.
143 Pan-German program and “We want territory”: Encyc. Brit., “Pan-Germanism.”
144 Admiral Dewey, on German bad manners: Palmer, 115.
145 Hay, “To the German mind”: q. A. L. P. Dennis, in S. F. Bemis, ed., American Secretaries of State, IX, 124.
146 “Sheepsheads”: Pinson, 278.
147 “Not even the tamest liberal”: Wolff, 310.
148 “Always wear a good black coat”: q. Pinson, 286.
149 Bülow and the lapels: Nowak, 226.
150 Holstein’s explanation and Bülow’s instructions: GP, XV, Nos. 4255, 4217, 4245–6-7.
151 Public resolutions: F.O. 83, 1699.
152 Balfour, “A sanguine view”: ibid.
153 Stead: All the material on Stead in these pages is from Whyte’s biography with the exception of the story about Charles II, which is from Esher, I, 229; the Prince of Wales’s opinion of the Czar as “weak as water,” which is from Warwick, 136; and the Russian complaint of being “embarrassed,” which was relayed by Ambassador Sir Charles Scott, Jan. 14, 1899, F.O. 83, 1699.
154 Henley, “the battle spirit”: from “Rhymes and Rhythms,” No. XVI, first published in Poems, 1898.
155 Nevinson: Changes and Chances (see Chap. 1), 130.
156 Mahan, “no greater misfortune”: q. Puleston (see Chap. 3), 171.
157 “Assured of certain certainties”: T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land.”
158 Yeats’ poem: in his autobiography, The Trembling of the Veil, 415.
159 Boston Peace Crusade “permanent tribunal”: Davis, 62.
160 McKinley urged to appoint Eliot: ibid., 68.
161 Kaiser on Mahan, “Our greatest foe”: GP, XV, n. to 4250.
162 Bourgeois, “amiable, elegant”: Zevaès (see Chap. 4), v. 141, 202; “cultivated fine beard”: Suarez (see Chap. 8), I, 420.
163 “To renounce war”: General Barail, q. Figaro, Aug. 31, 1898.
164 Mme Adam, “I am for war”: Suttner, II, 233.
165 “Beating empty air”: q. Davis, 88.
166 Baron Stengel’s pamphlet: Drummond to F.O., Apr. 6, 1899; Tate, 230, n. 44.
167 “Never give way”: Mowat, 300; “soul of honor”: ibid., 295.
168 “When Peel lost his temper”: Birrell (see Chap. 7), 126–27.
169 Fisher: the material in these three paragraphs is from Bacon’s biography except for the last line, “So I did,” which is from Fisher’s Records, 55.
170 The Hague during the Conference: chiefly from reports by the correspondent of Le Temps, May 10, 20, 24, 25; Figaro, May 20; White, Mowat, Suttner. The Huis ten Bosch was visited by author in 1963.
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