Note 743 — Chapter XIII

The absence of minutes by him to the dispatches during this crisis points to this fact (also see Eckardstein, Lebenserinnerungen und politische Denkwürdigkeiten, III, 167). The Emperor first learned of Rouvier’s offer of a general colonial agreement at this time in 1907. His comment was as follows: “If I had known of that, I would have accepted it and the whole stupid conference of Algeciras would have been avoided” (Brandenburg, Von Bismarck zum Weltkriege, p. 215).