Note 1090 — Chapter XVII

Bülow to Sternburg, Jan. 27, 1906, ibid., 123 ff., No. 6968; 127, No. 6972. On Feb. 3 Goluchowski declared to the German Ambassador that Austria would go with her ally on the questions of the police and the bank “through thick and thin” (Holstein to Wedel, Feb. 4, 1906, ibid., 137, No. 6981). Dr. Kriege, of the German foreign office, was sent on a special mission to Vienna on Feb. 2 to gain the Austrian support (memo. by Kriege, Feb. 4, 1906, ibid., 137 ff., No. 6982; Wedel to F. O., Feb. 5, 1906, ibid., 140, No. 6983). A cabinet crisis in Italy on Feb. 1 prevented the German government from taking any immediate steps to gain Italy’s active support. But Bülow expected Visconti Venosta to be willing to mediate. On Feb. 8 a new government was formed in Rome under Sonnino (Bülow to Radowitz, Feb. 7, 1906, ibid., 143 ff., No. 6987).