e V., King, entertains German Emperor, 67

George, Lloyd, and the Agadir crisis, 70
at meetings of Committee of Imperial Defense, 182

German desire of commercial development, 55, 58, 60
foreign policy: divided control of, 85

Germans, psychology of, 40

Germany, and the Agadir incident, 68
and the Hague Conference, 60
attitude of, before the war, 101 _et seq._
cause of her downfall, 167
Chauvinist party in, 81
commercial rivalry with England, 114
decides upon war, 88
defect of Imperial system in, 109
desire for commercial expansion, 103
Fleet Laws passed in the Reichstag, 142
her responsibility for the world war, 90
increases her armaments, 21, 94, 161
influence of General Staff, 41, 107
militarist party of, 39, 89, 108
miscalculations at outbreak of war, 83, 159
naval program of, 142, 156
new Military Law passed, 136
organization of her Navy, 138
over-ambition of, 16
peaceful penetration policy of, 39, 41
politics in: an anecdote of, 85 (note)
result of military spirit in, 15, 22
scaremongers in, 24
shipbuilding program of, 74
the new Fleet Law, 75, 79, 87, 128
the Press and Tirpitz, 143
two inconsistent policies in, 107
why she entered the war, 207

Goltz, von der, his "Nation in Arms," 180

Goschen, Sir Edward, demands his passports, 44

Gosse, Edmund, meets the Emperor, 68

Grant Duff, Colonel, 185

Great Britain and Belgian neutrality, 202
ante-war policy of, 13, 17
deficiencies in military organization of, 46
enters the war, 95
her sea power before the war, 19
indefinite policy of, 17, 28, 30
question of her preparedness for war, 18, 177
the educational problem in, 39

Great War, the, and Germany's responsibility, 15
causes of, 161

Greindl, Baron, and a curious legend, 201

Grey, Sir Edward (Lord Grey of Fallodon), an historical speech by, 44
and the Bagdad Railway question, 64
at meetings of Imperial Defense Committee, 182
Bethmann-Hollweg on, 113
denies an insinuation originating in Berlin, 203
his efforts for peace, 88, 154, 155
negotiates with Germany, 163
presses Serbia to accept ultimatum, 155
proposes a conference, 154

Grierson, General, and the Committee of Imperial Defense, 184

Hague Conference, the, 55
Germany's difficulty, 60

Haig, Sir Douglas, and military preparations for war, 188
and the reorganization of British Army, 48

Haldane, Lord, a luncheon to the Germ