Note 29 — Chapter II · GERMAN DIPLOMACY AND STATECRAFT

Cf. Lord Ampthill’s despatch (Aug. 25th, 1884). “He has discovered an unexplored mine of popularity in starting a colonial policy which public opinion persuades itself to be anti-English, and the slumbering theoretical envy of the Germans at our wealth and our freedom has taken the form of abuse of everything English in the Press.”—Fitzmaurice’s Granville, II, 358.