CONTENTS
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| My Appointment | [1] |
| Morocco Policy | [2] |
| Sir Edward Grey's Programme | [4] |
| The Albanian Question | [5] |
| The Near East and the Policy of the Triple Alliance | [7] |
| The Conference of Ambassadors | [10] |
| The Balkan Conference | [12] |
| The Second Balkan War | [13] |
| Liman Von Sanders | [14] |
| The Colonial Treaty | [15] |
| The Bagdad Treaty | [20] |
| The Question of the Navy | [21] |
| Commercial Jealousy | [23] |
| The Court and Society | [24] |
| Sir Edward Grey | [26] |
| Mr. Asquith | [28] |
| [Nicolson] | [29] |
| Tyrrell | [30] |
| Attitude of the German Foreign Office | [30] |
| In Case of War | [31] |
| The Serbian Crisis | [31] |
| The English Declaration of War | [37] |
| Retrospect | [38] |
| My Return | [40] |
| The Question of Responsibility | [41] |
| The Enemy Point of View | [41] |
| Bismarck | [42] |
| Our Future | [43] |
MY MISSION TO LONDON
1912-14
My Appointment
In September, 1912, Baron Marschall died after he had only been at his post in London for a few months. His appointment, which no doubt was principally due to his age and the desire of his junior officer to go to London, was one of the many mistakes of our policy.
In spite of his striking personality and great reputation, he was too old and too tired to adjust himself to the Anglo-Saxon world, which was completely alien to him; he was rather an official and a lawyer than a diplomat and statesman. From the very beginning he was at great pains to convince the English of the harmlessness of our fleet, and naturally this only produced the contrary effect.
Much to my surprise, I was offered the post in October. I had retired to the country as a "Personalreferent" after many years of activity, there being then no suitable post available for me. I passed my time between flax and turnips, among horses and meadows, read extensively, and occasionally published political essays.