1 [The following are the German newspapers mentioned in this book:—KÖlnische Zeitung (Cologne Gazette); Kreuzzeitung (Cross Gazette); Vossische Zeitung (Voss’s Gazette); Norddeutsche Zeitung (North German Gazette); Berliner Lokalanzeiger (Berlin Local Advertiser); and Berliner Tageblatt (Berlin Daysheet).—Translator’s Note.]
2 [Quoted from the Times report, 3rd October 1914.—Translator’s Note.]
3 [Quoted from the British Blue Book.—Translator’s Note.]
4 [In Racine’s Britannicus, Nero, although his wife Octavia has done no wrong, proposes to divorce her and marry Junia. Junia replies:
“J’ai mÉritÉ
Ni cet excÈs d’honneur, ni cette indignitÉ.”
—Translator’s Note.]
5 Report of Sir E. Goschen to Sir E. Grey, 8th August 1914, published by the British Government (Great Britain and the European Crisis).
6 These laws deal with the military and naval forces of the Empire, finance, commerce, questions of domicile, means of communication, and justice.
7 [In Continental politics, blue is the colour of the Conservatives proper, black that of the Clericals.—Translator’s Note.]
8 [The term applied in Continental politics to the temporary combination of several parties or groups for some particular purpose.—Translator’s Note.]
9 [This term arose out of the Social Democrats’ Congress at Baden in 1912. The “revisionists,” headed by Eduard Bernstein, proposed to abandon the old intransigent attitude, and to compromise with the Government in certain matters, especially taxation.—Translator’s Note.]
10 [This word bears the same meaning, for political purposes, as “bloc.” It is the German form of “cartel,” a term used by modern economists to denote a manufacturers’ union to keep up prices.—Translator’s Note.]
12 [French tour de valse, German Walzertour—i.e., a step taken without regard to the consequences, a light-hearted escapade. We may, perhaps, trace here a flavour of Teutonic contempt for Southern airs and graces.—Translator’s Note.]
13 Dispatch from M. Cambon, dated 5th November, Yellow Book for 1911.
14 See especially reports 141 and 161 from Sir Maurice de Bunsen to Sir Edward Grey (Great Britain and the European Crisis).
17 See M. Waxweiler’s La Belgique neutre et loyale (Lausanne: Payot et Cie.), and the pamphlet by M. van den Heuvel, Minister of State, De la violation de la neutralitÉ belge (Paris: Louis de Soye).
18 Statement made by the Chancellor on 6th November 1914 to the representatives of the great American agencies, United Press and Amalgamated Press.
19 [It would have been a pity to drop this happy metaphor, although it is not used, so far as I am aware, by English military writers. A curtain, in fortification, is a plain wall connecting two bastions.—Translator’s Note.]
