I received this gentleman in the presence of the Ambassador von Wiesner, and we both agreed that it was purely a case for a doctor.
There was a wide breach between the Imperial Chancellor Michaelis's ideas and our own.

It was impossible to bridge it over.

Soon after he left office to make way for the statesmanlike Count Hertling.
About this time very far-reaching events were being enacted behind the scenes which had a very pronounced influence on the course of affairs.
Acts of great indiscretion and interference occurred on the part of persons who, without being in any important position, had access to diplomatic affairs.

There is no object here in mentioning names, especially as the responsible political leaders themselves only heard the details of what had happened much later, and then in a very unsatisfactory way--at a time when the pacifist tendencies of the Entente were slackening.[10] It was impossible then to see clearly in such a labyrinth of confused and contradictory facts.

The truth is that in the spring or early summer of 1917 leading statesmen in the countries of the Allies and of the Entente gathered the impression that the existence of the Quadruple Alliance was at an end.