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make a splash: For a comprehensive study of Anglo-German enmity, see Paul M. Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism (London, 1980).

"a little boy": Quoted in Lamar Cecil, "History as family chronicle: Kaiser Wilhelm II and the dynastic roots of the Anglo-German antagonism," in Röhl and Sombart, eds., Kaiser Wilhelm II, 105.

"to the Botokunden": Ibid., 107.

"compel that recognition": Quoted in Theodor Schiemann, Deutschland und die Grosse Politik, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1902–15), I, 11–12.

"future on the water": Quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (Boston, 1964), 206.

"butt-ends of [their] rifles": Alfred von Tirpitz, My Memoirs, 2 vols. (New York, 1970), I, 134.

Naval bills: See Eckart Kehr, Battleship Building and Party Politics in Germany, 1894–1901 (Chicago, 1973).

grounds of the Berlin Zoo: Korff and Rürup, eds., Berlin, Berlin, 292.

"aimed at us": Massie, Dreadnought, 601.

"mad as hatters": Norman Rich and M. H. Fisher, eds., Friedrich von Holstein. The Holstein Papers: The Memoirs, Diaries and Correspondence of Friedrich von Holstein, 4 vols. (New York, 1955), I, 207. See also Terence F. Cole, "The Daily Telegraph Affair and its Aftermath: the Kaiser, Bülow, and the Reichstag, 1908–1909," in Röhl and Sombart, eds., Kaiser Wilhelm II, 249–268.

"in a madhouse": Vierhaus, ed., Spitzemberg Tagebuch, 489.

"ruler of this people": Quoted in Cole, "The Daily Telegraph Affair," 263.

"Jewish press carnival": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 140.

"safeguarding constitutional responsibilities": Bernard, Fürst von Bülow, Memoirs of Prince von Bülow. 4 vols. (Boston, 1931), II, 423.

"I am neither"; "He can’t do it": Quoted in Konrad H. Jarausch, The Enigmatic Chancellor: Bethmann-Hollweg and the Hubris of Imperial Germany (New Haven, 1973), 66–70.

"work out fine": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 147.

firmly onto his string: Paul M. Kennedy, "The Kaiser and German Weltpolitik," in Röhl and Sombart, eds. Kaiser Wilhelm II, 155.

"extremely relieved"; "little popguns": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 154, 163.

"the German sword": Reichstag Verhandlungen, XII, Leg. Per. II, Session 7718 (Nov. 9, 1911). See also Bernadotte E. Schmitt, England and Germany, 1740–1914 (Princeton, 1916), 338.

"matter with the Hohenzollerns?": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 165.

"coffin of German prestige": National Zeitung, Nov. 5, 1911.

"a more fortunate result": Quoted in Gordon A. Craig, Germany 1866–1945, 330–331.

"I hate the Slavs": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 176.

"more precarious than ever": Alan Clark, ed., ‘A Good Innings.’ The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham (London, 1974), 121.

"whole thing off": Quoted in Read and Fisher, Berlin Rising, 156.

"heels of that rabble": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 168.

"remain at home": Theodor Wolff, Der Kreig des Pontius Pilatus (Zurich, 1934), 328.

"to my subjects"; "deadly serious hour": Quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 56–57.

"Long Live Social Democracy": Jeffrey Verhey, "The Spirit of 1914. The Myth of Enthusiasm and the Rhetoric of Unity in World War I," Ph.D. Dissertation, Berkeley, 1991, 141.

"still alive": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 205.

"cool decisiveness": Quoted in Peter Grupp, Harry Graf Kessler 1868–1937 (Munich, 1995), 163.

"reached its high point": Quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 60.

"German sword to victory": Quoted in Verhey, "Spirit of 1914," 32.

"demanded by duty": Quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 61.

prospect of war: James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany (New York, 1917), 133–134.

"dinner in St. Petersburg": Winter and Baggett, Great War, 59.

bacon at Waterloo: Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 208.

apologized profusely: Gerard, My Four Years, 138–139.

"such dangerous people"; "lost their senses": Quoted in Verhey, "Spirit of 1914," 179–180.

"willingness for sacrifice": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 55.

war games in the streets: Felix Gilbert, A European Past (New York, 1988), 28.

"son of my wife": Käthe Kollwitz, Briefe an den Sohn 1904 bis 1945 (Berlin, 1992), 96.

"show his patriotism": Quoted in Verhey, "Spirit of 1914," 203.

bursting with happy crowds: Ibid., 202.