1. Bethmann-Hollweg to Kaiser Wilhelm II， in Geiss， p. 258.
2. The World War I Document Archive， ‘The Willy-Nicky Telegrams’ ： http：//wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Willy-Nicky_Telegrams.
3. Quoted in Carter， p. 426.
4. Nicolson， King George， p. 246， quoted in Carter， p. 427.
5. Quoted in Carter， p. 429.
6. Ibid.
