Documentary History of the War, Vol. 9
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Excerpt from Documentary History of the War, Vol. 9: Diplomatic Part 3 In September, 1912, Baron Marschall died, after having been at his post in London for only a few months. His appointment, which probably came about principally on account of his age and the desire of his junior officer to go to London, was one of the many blunders of our policy. In spite of a striking personality and great reputation, he was too old and too tired to settle down happily in the Anglo-Saxon world, which was completely strange to him, and he was rather an official and a lawyer than a diplomatist and statesman. He at once strove zealously to convince the English of the harmlessness of our fleet, whereby naturally only the opposite effect was produced. To my great astonishment, the post was offered to me in October. After several years´ activity as an official in the Personal Section of the Foreign Office, I had retired to the country, there being no suitable post available for me at that time, and had spent my time between flax and turnips, among horses and in meadows, also in miscellaneous reading, and occasionally publishing political essays. Thus eight years had passed, and thirteen since I had left Vienna with the rank of Envoy. My last sphere of political activity had really been there, since in official work at that time there was no scope for activity, unless one was prepared to draft whimsical despatches with complicated instructions under the directions of a man who suffered from crazy delusions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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