Note 35 — Chapter VI · THE BAGDAD RAILWAY BECOMES AN IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE

Karl Maximilan, sixth Prince, Lichnowsky (1860- ) had been a member of the German diplomatic service since his youth. He was attached to the embassy at London when he was but twenty-five and later served at Constantinople, Bucharest, and Vienna and in the Foreign Office at Berlin. He resigned in 1904 to devote himself to the management of his large estates in Silesia, but he was recalled in 1912 to become German ambassador to Great Britain, succeeding Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, who had died after only a few months’ service at his new post. Prince Lichnowsky’s memorandum My London Mission, 1912–1914 was written only to justify the Prince before a small circle of his acquaintances. Fugitive copies reached the press, however, and the full text was published in the Berlin Börsen-Courier of March 21, 1918. The quotations here given are from the translation of Munroe Smith, The Disclosures from Germany (New York, 1918).