Note 190 — Chapter V
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Salisbury was absent on account of the death of his wife, but the officials in the British foreign office assured Hatzfeldt that the premier was not at all prejudiced against Germany, as the latter supposed. See Hatzfeldt to Hohenlohe, Dec. 2, 1899, G.P., XV, 423, No. 4401; cf. Gwynn, I, 351.