Note 169 — Chapter V

Lieut. Col. Grierson, British military attaché at Berlin, reported to the British Ambassador a conversation with the Emperor on Jan. 15, 1898, as follows: “He [the Emperor] said that for eight years he had striven to be friendly with Great Britain to gain her alliance, and to work hand in hand with her, but had failed” (Grierson to Lascelles, Jan. 19, 1898, B.D., I, 42, No. 62). The Emperor said the same to Lascelles on Feb. 1. See Lascelles to Salisbury, Feb. 1, 1898, ibid., 43 f., No. 63; memo. by Tilley on the relations between Germany and Great Britain (1892-1904), Jan. 5, 1905, ibid., Appendix, 322 ff.; Brandenburg, chaps. i-iv.