New Instalment of British Diplomatic Documents Dealing with the Testing of the Entente London, Aug, 1.
Important sidelights on the origins of the Great War are sup-of bullying, as usual," ficant comment made by his late Majesty with regard to 2 German statement that Great Britain had ts covering the period 1904-6, issued to-day under the title, "The Testing of the Entent Notable among the documents long secret memorandum by Sic (then Mr.) Eyre Crowe, who later became Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated January 1, 1907, in which he ex-mines German policy and action in Morocco and South Africa during the Boer War, and also in Zanzibar, and the efforts made to improve relations between Great Britain and Germany.
In the course of the memorandum offered to conclude an offensive defensive alliance with France against, Gerntany.
The documents include a pen-portrait of the ex-Kaiser, written in 1906 by Sir Frank Lascelles, the British Ambassador at Berlin. Frank. describes Wilhelm impulsive and fond of jokes, were sometimes taken seriously by those who did not understand them. On one occasion the British Ambassador made the Emperor a communication of an agreeable nature. Wilhelm remarked, "The noodles seem to have had @ lucid interval," When asked whether he wished such Sir Eyre Crowe wrote: "The successors of Bismarck apparently regard it as their ultimate purpose to extract valuable concessions from England by offensive bluster and persistent nagging." He compared their attitude towards Great Britain to that of a professional blackmailer. message conveyed to His Ma-Jesty's Government the Kaiser, translating the remark into diplomatic language, told Sir Frank Lascelles to say that he had received the communication with great interest and satisfaction. The Ambassador, summing up, says that he concluded that the Kaiser thought Attached to some of the documents ave minutes penned by King Edward VIL showing that he had no illusions as regards German feeling for Great Britain, "A case sabre-rattling and moustache-twirling a befitting attitude for the ruler' of a mighty empire but, in reality, he was aniniated by "the most,
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