The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (129 page)

relations with Russia
xxix
,
37
,
44
,
75
,
78
–79,
101
,
113
,
129
,
146
,
181
–88,
225
,
227
,
321
,
423
,
471
,
477

relations with United States
129
,
372

and second Hague Peace Conference
283

and second Moroccan crisis
423

secure and prosperous in 1900
13

similarities between German and English peoples
52
–53

social programmes spending
108

stratified society
234

strikes in
107
,
412
,
424
,
473
,
599

taxation
108
,
128

Treitschke attacks
83
–84

Triple Entente
150
,
196
,
198
,
312
,
493

ultimatum to Germany
589
–90

unpopularity over Boer War
23

British army

defence budget
107

drill and field manoeuvres
329
–30

lack of a conscript army
107

losses
595

nationalism
249
–50

poor physical condition of recruits
243
–44

reforms
108

and sharing information
303
,
371

size of
38
,
212
,
296
,
359

Staff College
303

talks with French army
371
,
375
,
426
,
428
,
500
,
554

transport
299

British Empire
181
,
471

and Chamberlain
44

and defeat in a maritime war
105
–6

defence of
104
,
182

and Diamond Jubilee
26

growth of
37
,
50

the Kaiser’s threat
568

lack of alliances
23

lack of conflict within
273

as a mixed blessing
37

and naval superiority
507
–8

Russia as a rival
182

size of
54
,
55

weakness of
48

‘White’ dominions
15
,
114
,
599

British Expeditionary Force
373
–76,
426
,
447
,
546
,
579
,
594
,
595
, P1.
35

British Guiana (now Guyana)
17
,
41

British Staff College, Camberley
593
–94

Brooke, Rupert
265

Broqueville, Baron Charles de
586

Brunswick, Duke of
469

Brusilov, General Aleksei
340
,
472
,
505

Brussels, Belgium
581

Bryan, William Jennings
276
,
509

‘The Prince of Peace’ lecture
276

Buccleuch, Duke of
128

Buchanan, Sir George
551
,
552

Bucharest, Peace of (1913)
462

Bucharest, Rumania
386
,
437

Buchlau meeting (1908)
395
,
396
,
398
,
402
,
533
,
602

Buckingham Palace Conference (1913)
492

Buckingham Palace Conference (1914)
543
–44,
556

Budapest, Hungary
206

banking centre
201

Congress of Nationalities (1895)
209

fencing schools
235

Ottoman control
380

parliament buildings
208

population
7

Bulgaria
199
,
225
–26,
227
,
293
,
380
,
382
,
386
,
437
,
440

agreement with Montenegro
444

attacks Serbia and Greece
462

Austria-Hungary offers loans
448

customs arrangement with Serbia
388

Eastern Rumelia
387

in Great War
597

independence
379
,
381
,
387
,
396
,
397
,
404
,
409

and Macedonia
444

population
437

and Rumania
506

stirring up resistance
441

trade with Austria-Hungary
387

treaty with Greece
443
–44

treaty with Serbia (1912)
443

and the Triple Alliance
531

Bulgaria, king of
62

Bulgarian army
502
, P1.
28

Bulgarian atrocities
39

Bülow, Prince Bernhard von
47
,
67
,
189
,
188
,
196
,
354
,
360
,
403
, P1.
21

on anti-British feeling in Germany
57

appearance
77

becomes Chancellor
77

becomes Foreign Secretary
73

on Bethmann
416

and Bismarck
76

and building up the navy
94
,
95

character
76
,
77

conversations at Windsor Castle
44

Daily Telegraph
affair
125
,
126

dispute with Chamberlain
48

on the Dual Monarchy
200

and ending the naval race
406

and financial crisis
118
,
121

Foreign Secretary
76

on German fears that Britain might attack
118

and Germany’s encirclement
356

and Holstein
77
,
79

insists on Conference over Morocco
363

marriage
77

and Moltke the Younger
324

and Morocco
56
,
359
,
368
,
369

and naval construction
90

and pacifism
274

‘place in the sun’ speech
55
,
80
,
97

policy
78

and potential British attack
120

professes loyalty to Austria-Hungary
197

resignation
121
,
406

and Russo-Japanese War
362

and Samoa issue
252

and second Hague Peace Conference
283

Weltpolitik
speech
80

Burgess, Guy
337

Burián, Baron Stephen von
507

Burns, John
568
,
568
–69,
585

Burrows, Montagu
36

business slumps (1873–95)
81

Byzantine Empire
382

C

‘Cabinet’ wars
255
,
311

Čabrinović, Nedeljko
517

Cadbury, George
277

cadets P1.
15

Caillaux, Henriette
544
–45

Caillaux, Joseph
422
,
428
–29,
481
–82,
544
,
545
,
548

Caisse de la Dette
155

Calmette, Gaston
544

Cambon, Jules (French ambassador in Germany)
60
,
138
,
152
,
231
,
252
,
377
,
414
,
421
,
422
,
427
,
436
,
480
,
535
,
553
,
592

Cambon, Paul (French ambassador in London)
138
,
149
–52,
231
,
370
,
414
,
427
,
436
,
569

appearance
152

character
152

distinguished career
152

and the Entente Cordiale
156
,
157
,
374
–75

and Franco-Prussian War
138

French ambassador in London
136
,
152
–53

and Grey
364
,
500
–501,
558
,
579
,
580

and Lansdowne
151
,
154
,
155
,
361
,
364

and London conference of ambassadors
459

on Loubet
149

proposals to Britain
151
–52

Cameroon
414
,
427

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
194
,
282
,
364
,
367
,
371

Camperdown
, HMS
111

Canada

conflict between French and English
203

and financing of Royal Navy
114

and Moltke
59
,
590

Paris Universal Exposition
1

a temptation to annexationists
16

Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
26

Canadian navy
114

canal networks
10

Canalejas, José
241

Cánovas, Antonio
241

Canterbury, Archbishop of
587

Cape Mounted Rifles
26

capitalism
xxx
,
20
,
232
,
237
,
248
,
256
,
284
,
285
,
290
,
468

Caprivi, Leo von
74
,
76
,
82

Carbonari
439

Caribbean, US dominance
16
,
17
,
40

Carlyle, Thomas
52
,
91

Carnegie, Andrew
xxviii
,
267
,
275
–76,
468
,
509

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
276
,
468

Carnot, Sadi
241

Carol I of Rumania
386
,
505
,
506
,
531

Carson, Edward
543

Casablanca incident (1908)
400

Cassel, Sir Ernest
507
,
508

Cassels family
32

Catherine the Great
181

Catholic Church
213
,
240
,
432