Excerpt from King Edward, the Kaiser and the War
The volume entitled "Germany under Emperor William II." came out in December, 1913, and the pages contributed by Prince Bulow were treated very respectfully by our Press, which at that time belauded the Emperor as it had consistently done from the day of his accession in 1888. Bulow was still accounted a great force in 1913, although Bismarck had held that he was even more "tricky" than his sire, who was ruse enough for two. In 1915-1916 Bulow's diplomatic failures, notably at Rome, made him a laughing-stock; yet it is this discredited German who has the impudence to say, in a "revised introduction" to the new edition of "Germany under Emperor William II.," issued in September, 1916: "King Edward's policy attempted, by changing the grouping of European Powers, to checkmate Germany little by little. Great Britain is Germany's most dangerous enemy." And all this dangerous enmity is traceable to King Edward's man?uvres and meddlesomeness!
Prince Bulow assumes that England under King Edward pursued a persistent policy of "hemming Germany in," and apparently he believes that he, Bulow, defeated that policy.
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