Note 578 — Chapter XI

The information was given out to the London Standard, London Times, and the Kölnische Zeitung, at Tangier on March 19. The origin of the visit is obscure. Theodor Wolff relates that Kühlmann and Hornung, correspondent in Tangier of the Kölnische Zeitung, were responsible for proposing in February that the Emperor include Tangier in his itinerary (Wolff, Das Vorspiel, p. 156). The plan for the Emperor’s voyage in the Mediterranean submitted to the Chancellor on March 13 included a stay of four hours in Tangier (editor’s note, G.P., XX, 263). Probably Bülow aimed to use this visit politically from the start, just as he had intended using the dispatch of a warship to Tangier in the previous year. But only after he saw the effect of the announcement upon public opinion did he realize the full political significance of the visit (cf. ibid., pp. 262 ff.). Crozier’s story of the origin of this voyage is unsubstantiated by any evidence (Revue de France, April 1, 1921, pp. 279 f.).