Note 514 — Chapter X
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On receipt of that draft the Czar wrote to Lamsdorff: “To-day I received the Emperor’s letter with the treaty draft. As I read it, I laughed aloud. The content of the three articles touches France mostly. The last point concerns the particular object of dissatisfaction of the German Government with the British action in the coaling operation. This, however, is a private affair of both states. . . . . The matter must be considered from all sides, and a more desirable counterproposal for us must be composed” (Kriegsschuldfrage, Nov., 1924, p. 461).