408. Hastily, and just at the time appointed for the murder of Franz Ferdinand, a friendly visit of battleships to Kiel is arranged[38]--for the other attempts to spy out the harbour had failed.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 67. 408a. We have now ascertained that the plan for the assassination of the Austrian Crown-Prince was known in the Serbian Legation in London, and we shall certainly soon learn that it was known in other places as well.--K.L.A. SCHMIDT, D.E.E., p. 7. 409. That the blood-guiltiness of this "greatest crime in world-history" lies at the door of _England alone_ and that she has for more than forty years been plotting the _annihilation_ of her dangerous German competitor, has been established by numerous facts ... and, during the past three months, by the naive admissions of English statesmen.--PROF. E. HAECKEL, E.W., p. 113. 410. It is a pity that Nietzsche did not live to see the success of his teaching in England.... Britain may claim to have bred the Superman in the highest potency yet attained. He has made a clean sweep of the old British morality. He is coldly and unfeelingly inspired by a _frightful craving for power_, that wades through rivers of blood, and knows neither compunction nor pity. These are weaknesses which the Superman has conquered.--"GERMANUS," B.U.D.K., p. 9. _But see No. 132._ 411. It is a pity that men like Newton, Darwin, Shakespeare, Marlborough, Nelson, Wellington, Spurgeon, etc., should have their birth recorded in British registers. But they are exceptions. Among the millions of the Cities of the Plain, there must be a few just men.--PASTOR B. LOeSCHE, D.S.E.S.D., p. 15. 411a. Death and destruction to the poison-mixers on the banks of the Thames! Cain, Ahab, Judas, Ephialtes, and the disciples of these master-assassins, whatever they may be called, are positive heroes in comparison with the ruffians who, jeering at all Kultur, have committed a crime against innocent blood which no words can characterize.--PASTOR B. LOeSCHE,[39] D.S.E.S.D., p. 4. 412. The unexampled sorrow and need begotten by the gigantic world-war conjured up by England's brutal egoism--"_the greatest crime in the whole world-history_"--has inclined many suffering people to suicide.--PROF. E. HAECKEL, E.W., p. 39. 413. [Title.] "The Greatest Criminal against Humanity of the Twentieth Century, KING EDWARD VII. OF ENGLAND. A Curse Pamphlet (_Fluchschrift_),[40] by Lieutenant-Colonel Reinhold Wagner." He it was, he it was that kindled the world-war. He was the incarnation of the boundless selfishness and unscrupulousness of Englishism (_Englaendertum_). Opening words of above-cited pamphlet. 414. White snow, white snow, fall, fall for seven weeks; all may'st thou cover, far and wide, but never England's shame; white snow, white snow, never the sins of England.--G. FALCK, quoted in H.A.H., p. 50. =British Vices--Hypocrisy, Envy and Greed.=