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March, 1927
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY
THE CONTEMPLATED ANGLO-GERMAN
ALLIANCE: 1890-1901 *
O N March 17, 1890, the young Kaiser dismissed Bismarck
from the chancellorship of the empire. He announced
that though the pilot had changed, the course was to
be the same. German historians, however, have rightly applied
to the years following 1890 the term der neue Kurs,- for the
new pilots in part perhaps did not understand the old course,
in part did not choose to follow it. The new chancellor, Gen-
eral von Caprivi, played no decisive part in foreign affairs, nor
did Prince Hohenlohe, who succeeded him in 1894. The new
foreign secretary, Freiherr von Marschall, who succeeded Her-
* This article is based primarily upon the documents of the German foreign
office, published under the title of Die grosse Politik der europdischen
Kabinette, to which all references merely by volume and number refer. As a
supplementary source the writers have tried to make the fullest use of Eckard-
stein, Lebenserinnerungen und politische Denkwiirdigkeiten (Leipzig, 1919-
1920), to which references are made under the author's name only. Lastly,
they are indebted to Brandenburg, Von Bismarck zum Weltkriege (Berlin,
1924) for suggestions and help of many kinds, and they have occasionally
even quoted his words. All the documents in Die grosse Politik bearing upon
direct negotiations for alliance or entente between Germany and England the
writers have gone through and summarized; i. e. the documents dealing with
Salisbury's proposal of 1895, with Chamberlain's proposal of 1898 and with the
last negotiations of igor, as well as with the developments growing out of the
Jameson Raid and the Kruger telegram in the winter of 1895-1896. It was
these episodes that were originally meant to be the topic of this article, but it
proved impossible to isolate them from the events of the years from 1890 on.
For other episodes, accordingly, the writers have followed Brandenburg's
guidance. All his references to the German archives were verified in Die
grosse Politik, and are here made by number of volume and document in that
collection, as he himself gives them in the second (1925) edition of his book.
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