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chancellor, Caprivi, was ignorant of foreign affairs; and Holstein, as the repository of the Bismarckian tradition, became indispensable. This reluctance to emerge into publicity has been ascribed to the See also:

PART

part he had played under Bismarck in the See also:

Arnim affair, which had made him powerful enemies; it was, however, possibly due to a shrinking from the responsibility of office. Yet the weakness of his position See also:

lay just in the fact that he was not ultimately responsible. He protested against the despatch of the " See also:

KRUGER, STEPHANUS JOHANNES PAULUS (1825-1904)

Kruger telegram," but protested in vain. On the other See also:

hand, where his ideas were acceptable, he was generally able to realize them. Thus it was almost entirely due to him that See also:

Germany acquired Kiao-chau and asserted her interests in See also:

CHINA

China, and the acquisition of See also:

SAMOA

Samoa was also largely his See also:

WORK

work. If the skill and pertinacity with which Holstein carried through his plans in these matters was learned in the school of Bismarck, he had not acquired Bismarck's See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty for foreseeing their ulterior consequences. This is true of his See also:

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese policy, and true also of his part in the See also:

MOROCCO

Morocco crisis. The See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

William II.'s See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

TANGIER (locally TANJAH)

Tangier was undertaken on his See also:

ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice, as a protest against the supposed See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt at the See also:

ISOLATION

isolation of Germany; but of the later developments of German policy in the Morocco question he did not approve, on the ground that the result would merely be to strengthen the Anglo-See also:

French entente; and from the 12th of See also:

March 1906 onwards he took no active part in the See also:

MATTER

matter. To the last he believed that the position of Germany would remain unsafe until an understanding had been arrived at with See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, and it was this belief that determined his attitude towards the question of the See also:

FLEET

fleet, " beside which," he wrote in See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1909, " all other questions are of lesser See also:

account." His views on this question were summarized in a memorandum of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1907, of which Herr von See also:

RATH, GERHARD VOM (183o-1888)

Rath gives a resume.

He objected to the See also:

PROGRAMME, or PROGRAM

programme of the German See also:

NAVY

Navy See also:

LEAGUE

League on three See also:

main grounds: (I) the See also:

ill-feeling likely to be aroused in See also:

South Germany, (2) the inevitable dislocation of the finances through the huge additional charges involved, (3) the suspicion of Germany's motives in foreign countries, which would bind Great Britain still closer to See also:

France. As for the See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea that Germany's See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power would be increased, this—he wrote in reply to a See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter from See also:

ADMIRAL

Admiral Galster—was " a See also:

SIMPLE

simple question of See also:

ARITHMETIC (Gr. apeOµ7run7, sc. TEXVn, the art of counting, from (ipLBµos, number)

arithmetic "; for how would the See also:

sea-power of Germany be relatively increased if for every new German See also:

SHIP

ship Great Britain built two? Herr von Holstein retired on the resignation of See also:

Prince Billow, and died on the 8th of May 1909. See See also:

Hermann von Rath, " Erinnerungen an Herrn von Holstein " in the Deutsche Revue for See also:

OCTOBER

October 1909. He is also frequently mentioned passim in Prince Chlodwig See also:

HOHENLOHE

Hohenlohe's See also:

MEMOIRS

Memoirs.

End of Article: HOLSTEIN, FRIEDRICH VON (1837–1909)

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