Note 866 — Chapter XV
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Even Lascelles, British ambassador at Berlin, admitted to Metternich that “in a Franco-German war in view of the prevailing opinion here [in England] England would be actively on the French side.” See Metternich to Bülow, July 19 and 22, 1905, G.P., XX, 639 f., No. 6864; 646 ff., No. 6867; Bülow to Metternich, July 22, 1905, ibid., 641 ff., No. 6866.