Note 22 — Chapter II · GERMAN DIPLOMACY AND STATECRAFT

I have based the remarks which follow on a close study of German, French, and English authorities—among others upon the following: Bismarck, Gedanken und Erinnerungen; Hohenlohe, Denkwürdigkeiten; Hanotaux, Histoire de la France Contemporaine; de Broglie, Mission de M. de Gontaut-Biron; Fitzmaurice, The Life of Lord Granville. All these are the works of statesmen who could legitimately say of their times quorum pars magna fui. Lord Fitzmaurice’s book, apart from its being the work of a statesman, whose knowledge of foreign affairs is equaled by few and surpassed by none, is indispensable to a study of Anglo-German relations since 1850, being based on diplomatic sources, in particular the despatches of Lord Odo Russell. Some passages in The Life of Lord Lytton are also illuminating, likewise the essays of that prince of French historians, Albert Sorel. But I have, of course, also gone to the text of treaties and original documents.