Note 163 — Chapter V
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Hatzfeldt to Hohenlohe, April 26, 1898, G.P., XIV, 221 ff., No. 3793; dispatches from Hatzfeldt recounting conversations with Salisbury, May 12, 15, 1898, ibid., 230 ff., and notes; Hatzfeldt to F. O., May 15, 1898, ibid., 233 ff., No. 3797. The best exposition of Salisbury’s views is given in a memorandum by him, May 29, 1901, B.D., II, 68 f., No. 86. See also J. A. Spender, The Public Life (New York, 1925), I, 79; Salisbury to Lansdowne, April 21, 1897, Newton, Lord Lansdowne, A Biography, pp. 145 f. On Aug. 30, 1899, Salisbury wrote to Lansdowne that the British army would not be needed for a Continental war “in a blue moon” (ibid., p. 157).