Note 23 — Chapter III · GERMANS BECOME INTERESTED IN THE NEAR EAST

Die grosse Politik der europäischen Kabinette, 1871–1914 (Berlin, 1922 et seq.), Volume VI, pp. 360–361. (A compilation of documents from the files of the Foreign Office, edited by a non-partisan commission appointed by the Government of the German Republic.) Of Bismarck’s policy in the Near East the Ex-Kaiser writes, “Bismarck spoke quite disdainfully of Turkey, of the men in high position there, and of conditions in that land.– I thought I might inspire him in part with essentially more favorable opinions, but my efforts were of little avail.... Prince Bismarck was never favorably inclined toward Turkey and never agreed with me in my Turkish policy.” W. von Hohenzollern, My Memoirs, 1878–1918 (New York, 1922), p. 27.