Note 13 — Chapter IX · 1910-1911-1912

'My old commander, the late General Field-Marshal Freiheer von Loë, a good Prussian and a good Catholic, once said to me that, in this respect, matters would not improve until the well-known principle of French law "que la recherche de la paternité était interdite" is changed to "la recherche du confessional était interdite."'—Von Bülow: Imperial Germany, p. 185.