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172 Beernaert “greatest cynic”: Neal Ascherson, The King Incorporated, London, 1963, 142.
173 Münster, “political riff-raff”: GP, XV, 4327.
174 Reichstag deputies: The Times, May 11, 1899.
175 Fisher, “humanizing war!” et seq.: Stead, Review of Reviews, Feb., 1910, 117.
176 Hotel Kurhaus: Letters, I, 142.
177 Stead on Fisher: q. Bacon, I, 121.
178 He learned from German naval delegate: ibid., 128, 177.
179 “Deepest seriousness”: q. Taylor (see Chap. 3), 99.
180 Fisher on neutral coal: Bacon, I, 128.
181 Captain Siegel’s argument: GP, XV, 4274.
182 Ardagh’s speech on dumdums: June 14, F.O. 83, 1695.
183 “The angel of arbitration”: q. Reinach (see Chap. 4), V, 173, n. 2.
184 Society’s “awful conscience”: Hunter (see Chap. 8), 30.
185 D’Estournelles’ story of Jaurès: White, 300.
186 Kaiser, “this whole hoax”: GP, XV, 4276.
187 Efforts to persuade Germany on arbitration: White, II, 265–313. Pauncefote Memorandum, June 19, F.O. 83, 1695, and other reports in F.O. 83, 1700; GP, XV, 4276, 4280, 4284, 4317, 4320, 4349.
188 Kaiser’s disgust, “I consented …”: GP, XV, 4320.
189 “Zeal almost macabre”: Le Temps, editorial, July 27.
190 Mahan blocks arbitration: Puleston (see Chap. 3), 211; White, 338–41.
191 As if the hand of God: Clynes (see Chap. 7), 98; “With a kind of shiver”: M. Radziwill, Letters (see Chap. 4), Jan. 2, 1900, 237.
192 Kaiser to Fritz Krupp: from the Krupp archives, q. William Manchester, “The House of Krupp,” Holiday, Dec., 1964, 110.
193 Three hundred men “all acquainted”: q. Kessler (see Chap. 8), 121.
194 “Then in 1900,” wrote Yeats: Introduction to Oxford Book of Modern Verse.
195 Henry Adams expecting a bomb: Education, 494–95.
196 Exposition: l’illustration and Le Monde Illustré, passim through the summer; Outlook, Sept. 8, Nov. 10, 1900, Jan. 5, 1901; Harper’s Monthly, Sept., 1900; Blackwood’s, July, 1900; Nation, June 28, 1900.
197 “It seemed merely a matter of decades”: Zweig (see Chap. 6), 3.
198 Balfour wished to appoint Mahan Regius Professor: Magnus, Edward VII, 306.
199 Jusserand and Philander Knox on Roosevelt: Jules Jusserand, What Me Befell, Boston, 1934, 241; Sullivan (see Chap. 3), II, 438 n.
200 Roosevelt’s visit to Eliot: James, Eliot (see Chap. 3), II, 159.
201 Roosevelt, “foolish theory”: to Spring-Rice, Dec. 21, 1907, VI, 871; “weakening of fighting spirit”: ibid.; “I abhor men like Hale: to Speck von Sternberg, July 16, 1907, V, 721; “General softening of fibre”: to White-law Reid, Sept. 11, 1905, V, 19.
202 Kaiser, “That’s my man!”: Bülow, I, 658.
203 D’Estournelles’ visit to Roosevelt: Suttner, II, 390–91.
204 Hay, “I have it all arranged”: Tyler Dennett, John Hay, New York, 1933, 346.
205 Fisher proposes to “Copenhagen” German fleet: Bacon, II, 74–75.
206 “Ach, that damned Reichstag!”: Bülow, II, 36–37.
207 Czar’s hint conveyed to Washington: Roosevelt to Carl Schurz, Sept. 15, 1905, V, 30–31. The letter to Root, Sept. 14, 1905, V, 26.
208 C.-B., “so straight, so good-tempered”: Lee (see Chap. 1), II, 442.
209 C.-B., “What nobler role”: at Albert Hall, Dec. 21, 1905, Spender, II, 208.
210 Damnable, Domineering and Dictatorial: Bacon, I, 207.
211 Izvolsky, “a craze of Jews”: GP, XXIII, 7879.
212 C.-B., “Long live the Duma!”: C.-B. delivered the speech in French, Spender, II, 264.
213 Kaiser hoped Conference “would not take place”: GP, XXIII, 7815. On King Edward’s visit: ibid.; also 7823, 7825–26.
214 “Alert, aggressive, military”: to Oscar Straus, Feb. 27, 1906, V, 168.
215 “Maudlin extreme”: to Reid, Aug. 7, 1906, V, 348; talk with Count Gleichen: Lee, II, 437. Another visitor who found American amenities less than satisfactory was Count Witte. During his mission to the Portsmouth Peace Conference he said the only decent meal he had had in America was on board Morgan’s yacht (Witte, 169).
216 Navy “more potent for peace”: Sept. 22, 1906, V, 421.
217 Carnegie agreed to donate Peace palace: Hendrick, II, 164.
218 Root, “failures necessary steps”: Jessup, II, 70.
219 First issue of the Nation: Mar. 2, 1907.