Note 403 — Chapter IX

The dispatches are to be found in G.P., Vol. XVII, chap. cxv. In July, however, the German Emperor could not conceal from the French Ambassador his irritation at Delcassé’s success in the Anglo-French rapprochement. After expressing the wish that French vessels might repeat the visit of 1895 to Kiel, he remarked to M. Bihourd, July 16: “‘I know well that nothing is to be accomplished with M. Delcassé. The advances to England are the work of M. Delcassé and M. Cambon. . . . . But the Russians are not content with that and some day they will make you. . . . .’ Here a gesture of disappointment, concluded M. Bihourd, made clear the prediction” (quoted from a dispatch from Bihourd in Bourgeois et Pagès, Les origines et les responsabilités de la grande guerre, p. 293).