Note 173 — Chapter V
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Holstein thought that the possibility for this alliance would first enter “when (1) Russia threatens us; (2) England acts less haughty than today.” See Holstein’s minute to a dispatch from Hatzfeldt to Hohenlohe, April 26, 1898, G.P., XIV, 223, No. 3793. On the German reaction see also the dispatch from Bülow to Hatzfeldt, April 3, 1898, ibid., 204 ff., No. 3785, and the following documents.