Wagner, Richard, I, 58, 320
Waszklewicz, Frau von, II, 277
Watson, Spencer, II, 207
Weilen, Joseph von, I, 44, 64, 82, 83
Welsersheimb, Count, II, 239, 248, 256, 275, 316
Werner, B. von, II, 198
Westcott, Brooke Foss, I, 416
Westminster, Duke of, I, 288, 316, 340
Weyler, General, II, 103
White, Andrew D., II, 258, 266, 268, 272 note, 294, 299, 315, 319, 423,
430;
his wife, II, 315
Widman, J. V., I, 298, 389
Wiesner, Secretary, II, 203
Wilczek, Count, I, 333
Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland, II, 262
William I, King of Prussia, I, 160, 161, 162, 173; II, 41, 42, 192
William II, Emperor of Germany, II, 14, 105, 198, 201, 226, 344, 359,
388, 406
Williams, Miss Alice, II, 365, 402
Wisinger, Olga, II, 7, 8, 114, 123
Witte, Count, II, 216
Wittgenstein, Prince Philipp, I, 42, 43
Wolff, Julius, I, 273, 390, 395
Wollrabe, photographer, II, 302
Wolzogen, Baron von, I, 390, 395; II, 197
Woodford, General, II, 169
Wormser, I, 97, 99
Wrangel, Marshal von, I, 60
Wratislav, Count, I, 86
Wrede, Prince Alfred, I, 342, 445; II, 139
Yang-Yü, Ambassador, II, 253, 261, 275, 360, 362;
his wife, II, 253, 261, 271
Zanini, Count, II, 237
Zeretelli, General, I, 221
Zichy, Count Eugen, II, 115, 121, 124, 161, 249
Zola, Émile, I, 414; II, 34, 172, 174, 180, 343
Zorn, Professor, II, 293, 295, 298, 299, 301, 309, 323
Zychy, I, 253
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Footnote 1:
Sergyeï Vasilgevitch Vereshchágin. Still another brother, Alexander
Vasilgevitch Vereshchágin, was wounded in the same campaign, and gives
vivid pictures of the horrors of the march in his volume, “At Home and
in War.”
Footnote 2:
Session of June 10, 1893.—B. S.
Footnote 3:
In the course of this speech Gladstone made the statement, “Militarism
is indeed a most terrible curse for civilization.”—B. S.
Footnote 4:
The justified hope of the proposer was that a definitive peace
(_definitivum_) would develop from this provisional one
(_provisorium_.)
Footnote 5:
Even to-day reason is not yet heeded, because the all-powerful
megaphone of the political press is closed to it.—B. S.
Footnote 6:
“What would you have us do? We are the weak, the vanquished; but as
soon as there are propositions of disarmament coming from the victors
we are ready to enter into negotiations.”
Footnote 7:
At the present time one would say “in combating social misery, in
ennobling and elevating the masses, in ethicalizing all classes”
(_Ethisierung aller Stände_).—B. S.
Footnote 8:
Yet how singeing hot these rays are still burning in the Transvaal and
in Manchuria! (Observation of 1908.)—B. S.
Footnote 9:
This is the case even to-day (1908).—B. S.
Footnote 10:
The first series of massacres extended from October 3, 1895, to
January 1, 1896. On the part of the Armenians, as is shown by
documentary evidence, there was no provocation whatever. In spite of
that, 85,000 people were killed, about 2300 cities and villages were
laid waste, more than 100,000 Christians were compulsorily converted
to Islam, and 500,000 were reduced to starvation.—B. S.
Footnote 11:
_Der Geiger_, or rather _Der Geigenmacher, von Cremona_, a one-act
opera by Hans Trneček, born May 16, 1858, at Prague. Text by Leopold
Günther, after Coppée. First produced at the Court Theater of
Schwerin, April 16, 1886.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 12:
In 1904 Mr. Nepluief called upon me in Vienna. He had remained
faithful to himself and his apostleship. He had also succeeded in
interesting the Czarina in it. It was his desire that the peace
societies everywhere should establish such fraternities among the
common people; but, to say nothing of other objections, these
societies, above all, lack the means for doing so.
Footnote 13:
Our old friend the literary Hotspur, so full of mettle, from Munich,
recently elected to the Reichstag.
Footnote 14:
Erkel Ferenz (1810–1893), creator of the national Hungarian opera.
_Bank-Ban_ is regarded as his best work.—Translator.
Footnote 15:
As a contrast to this idea (_Hebt den Grund der Armut auf!_), which is
not current among philanthropic financiers, I append the following
letter:
My dear Baroness:
I have had the pleasure of receiving your esteemed favor of the
nineteenth. Highly as I esteem the work to which you are devoting
yourself with such self-sacrificing assiduity, I regret that I cannot
be of assistance to it by acceding to the wish that you express. The
great number of demands made upon me in behalf of humanitarian objects
forbid my considering them all. You will, therefore, my dear Baroness,
understand and will not feel offended with me, if I give the
preference to such associations as not merely have in view an ideal
purpose but pursue practical ends connected with real life.
Regretting that I am not in a position to give you an affirmative
answer, I beg you to accept the expression of my distinguished
consideration.
Bn. N. Rothschild
Footnote 16:
Secret guaranty with Russia.
Footnote 17:
Also, as I have learned from other sources, by the King himself.—B. S.
Footnote 18:
I observe that the division of the prize corresponds neither to the
letter of the will nor to the testator’s intentions, which I knew well.
Footnote 19:
The union, _Entente cordiale_, for the bettering of Franco-English
relations, due to the initiative of Representative Thomson and the
Honorable Philip Stanhope, under the chairmanship of Lord Dufferin.—B.
S.
Footnote 20:
Prisoners charged with being anarchists were tortured in the fortress of
Montjuich. A letter, dated March 11, and signed Sebastian Sunjé,
addressed to “all good men of the earth,” came to light: “Oh, by all
that is sacred to you, rescue us from the hands of our torturers.” But
alas! the “good men of the earth” are not organized, are not ready to be
mobilized. They can only shudder.
Footnote 21:
_Schach der Qual._ I had cherished the wish to bring to the Tsar’s
attention the chapter entitled _Frohbotschaft_ (“Good Tidings”)
containing the invitation to a conference of the powers.—B. S.
Footnote 22:
Psalm cxlix, 6–8.—Translator.
Footnote 23:
_Die Waffen nieder_, VII, 344.
Footnote 24:
_Die Waffen nieder_, VII, 377.
Footnote 25:
_Post hoc_ is not _propter hoc_. Although it delighted me to hear that
the Tsar had read my book shortly before the appearance of the
manifesto, yet I was firmly convinced that a long chain of many
influences, among which that of reading a novel could have been of only
small effect, must have preceded such an action. Later I learned that
Bloch’s book had made a deep impression on the Tsar; at that time I
suspected that Professor Martens had helped inspire the document and
wrote him to that effect. His answer follows:
Villa Waldeuse near Wolmar
Livonia, September 9, 1898
My dear Madam:
I make haste to present my sincerest thanks for the friendly letter of
the 4th inst. with which you honored me. I do not know to what degree
my teaching could have influenced his Majesty the Emperor or his
councilors in the noble task which they have imposed on the
governments and nations of the civilized world.
I had no direct part in the celebrated rescript of August 12 (24),
having been for some time in residence on my estate in Livonia, far
from the capital. But I have applauded with the keenest sympathy and
the sincerest admiration the generous action taken by my august master
for the well-being and happiness of all civilized nations.
As to the bibliographical notes, I shall make it my duty to
communicate them to you after the meeting of the _conférence de la
paix_. At this moment I am too busy with my official duties.
Reiterating my very respectful thanks, I beg you, Madam, to accept the
assurance of my high consideration.
Martens.
Footnote 26:
A treaty without any limitations. (Observation of 1908.—B. S.)
Footnote 27:
It is a fact that a few days later the question at issue was submitted
to the arbitration of the Queen of England. Later the two republics
concluded a standing agreement to bring every future controversy before
the Hague Tribunal, and as a result reduced their armaments and sold
their war ships. As a memorial to this agreement a gigantic statue of
the Christ has been erected on a peak of the mountain boundary, the
Andes. (Observation of 1908.—B. S.)
Footnote 28:
It was not his first letter to me. A few months before, young Egidy
surprised and delighted me with the following communication from a
distant part of the world:
On his Majesty’s ship _Seeadler_
Tullear, Madagascar, April 20, 1898
My dear Baroness:
As the first German naval officer who, since the war of 1870, has left
a war ship to step on soil now French, I am taking the liberty of
sending you this respectful greeting.
No great political action has brought us hither, but the fact that
German ships of war are again calling at French harbors is
symptomatic, and will certainly be welcomed by you with satisfaction;
therefore I could not deny myself the pleasure of giving you this bit
of information.
I am glad, gracious lady, to take this opportunity to express to you a
son’s gratitude for the true comradeship which you have given my
father; I know how precious it has been to him and how thankfully he
has accepted it.
With the request that you present my sincerest regards to your
husband, I am
Yours most respectfully and faithfully
Moritz von Egidy, Lieutenant at Sea
Footnote 29:
The passage from my eulogy here referred to ran thus:
The consciousness that an Egidy was here was such a comforting,
strengthening, joyous consciousness. We had him; this possession was
like the possession of a check book. If ever assistance, consolation,
support were required in a spiritual campaign, in an ethical dilemma,
all one had to do was to produce the check book; Egidy was certain to
honor it instantly. Always the right word, the unhesitating opinion,
nobility pure of dross. Even if there were heard on all sides: “The
world is bad, every one thinks only of himself, there is no
improvement, there are no clear notions of duty, no straight paths of
virtue,” we could always smile calmly and say to ourselves, “That is
not true; there is an Egidy here.”
Footnote 30:
_Die Haager Friedenskonferenz, Tagebuchblätter_, Dresden und Leipzig, E.
Pierson. 2d edition, 1901. Price 2 marks.
Footnote 31:
This might be translated, “You have furnished us straw for our
bricks.”—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 32:
My niece Maria Louise was with us at The Hague.
Footnote 33:
He refers to the letter, the composition of which, as decreed by the
Interparliamentary Conference of 1894, was intrusted to Chevalier
Descamps and H. La Fontaine, and which, at the direction of the
Interparliamentary Congress of 1895, was sent to all the governments in
the name of the Union.
Footnote 34:
Nothing of the later limitations of “vital interests” and “honor of the
nations.” (Observation of 1908.)
Footnote 35:
The delegates for the United States of America were Andrew D. White,
United States ambassador at Berlin; Seth Low, president of Columbia
University; Stanford Newell, envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary at The Hague; Captain Alfred T. Mahan, United States
Navy; William Crozier, captain of artillery; Frederick W. Holls, lawyer,
of New York, secretary to the delegation. Mr. Holls died in
1903.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 36:
The Russian delegates were Von Staal, ambassador at London; Martens, of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Vasily, also of the Foreign Department;
and five technical delegates.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 37:
Professor Zorn of the Law Faculty in the University of Bonn, scientific
delegate to the Peace Congress.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 38:
Persia was represented at the First Peace Conference at The Hague by
Aide-de-camp General Mirza Rhiza Khan (Arfa-ud-Dovleh), ambassador at
St. Petersburg and Stockholm, and Mirza Samad Khan (Montazis-Sultanah),
counselor of legation.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 39:
For an account of the outcome of this critical situation see Andrew D.
White’s “Autobiography.”
Footnote 40:
Baron von Bildt, ambassador from Sweden and Norway to the court of
Italy. He was the only delegate plenipotentiary from Scandinavia; but
Sweden and Norway each sent two technical delegates.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 41:
These were M. Georges Bihourd, ambassador at The Hague, Baron
d’Estournelles de Constant, and three technical delegates—General
Mounier, Rear Admiral Péphau, and Professor Louis Renault of the
Law Faculty and legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 42:
Sir John A. Fisher, Vice Admiral, technical delegate from Great
Britain.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 43:
Dr. Voïslaf Velkovitch, professor of law in the University of Belgrade;
the other representatives of Servia were Miyatovitch, envoy at London
and The Hague, and Colonel Maschin, envoy at Cetinje.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 44:
There are a hundred cents to a dollar and a hundred years to a century.
Ninety-nine cents do not make a dollar; nor does the year 1899 end the
century.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 45:
Brennus, leader of the Senonian Gauls, who took Rome in 390 B.C. Being
offered a thousand pounds of gold as a ransom for the Capitol, he took
it and went home.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 46:
A reference to Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo, who always helps Captain
Grant’s children at the right moment, and whom we had jestingly chosen
for our guardian saint.
Footnote 47:
Richard Chimani, physician to the General Staff, a friend of long
standing who owned a place near us.
Footnote 48:
Authorized German translation, under the title _Seemannslaufbahn_, by A.
H. Fried. Berlin, Boll & Pickardt.
Footnote 49:
See pp. 405 ff.
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