Note 551 — Chapter X
Reading edition
Memo. by Holstein, Dec. 29, 1904, ibid., 551 ff., No. 6275. The Emperor also suffered from the “nightmare of the coalitions,” but his suffering assumed more varied forms. At one moment he feared a Franco-Anglo-American-Japanese grouping; at another, an Anglo-Franco-Russian grouping; at another, an Anglo-Franco-Russo-Japanese grouping (see ibid., Nos. 5925, 5945, 6187, 6280).