Flotow, Baron, interview with Hohenlohe, 117 reports on German attitude on U-boat warfare, 118 Fourteen Points, Wilson's, 190 _et seq._, 271, 305, 306, 323 _et seq._ France, and Austria: effect of Vienna troubles, 250 Bethmann's tribute to, 153 distrust of Germany's intentions in, 185 insists on restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, 170 opening of war a surprise to, 2 the Pacifist party in, 167 Francis Joseph, Emperor, a tribute to, 47 advised to accept negotiations, 8 and Franz Ferdinand, 42, 46 and the principle of ministerial responsibility, 56 author's audience with, 12 death of, 48 gives audience to author, 47 King Edward VII. and, 1, 2 on the Peace of Bucharest, 6 opposes Filippescu's scheme, 81 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, a fortune-teller's prediction concerning, 44 anti-Magyar point of view of, 38, 50 antipathy to Hungary, 35, 37, 38 as gardener, 35 as husband and father, 44, 45 dislike for the Germans of, 50 false rumours concerning, 43 fearlessness of, 45 friendships of, 39 Goluchowski and, 36 Great-Austrian programme of, 41, 49 his high opinion of Pallavicini, 5 his sense of humour, 41 makes advances to the Kaiser, 42 marriage of, 41, 44 mentality of, 35 personality of, 34 pro-Roumanian proclivities of, 77, 78, 79 tragic end of, 49 (_see also_ Sarajevo tragedy) views on foreign policy of, 51 Freedom of the seas, 177 attacked by Entente, 280, 281 neutrals and, 284 President Wilson on, 281, 307 French Socialistic Congress, 214 Freyburg, Baron von, attends conference on U-boat question, 121 Friedrich, Archduke, a tribute to, 22 tact of, 72 Frontier rectifications, Hungary and, 258, 266, 319, 330 Fuerstenberg, Karl, a request of, refused at Vienna, 112 report on Roumanian question by, 77 =G= Galicia, proposed cession of, 20, 75, 145, 159, 173, 332 partition of, 209 Tisza and, 135 Gas attacks, reason for Germany's use of, 16 Gautsch, Baron, a code telegram from, 229 at Nordbahnhof, 219 George, Lloyd, admits grave state of grain supplies, 295 and the Peace of Versailles, 272 author in agreement with, 177-8 confers with Orlando, 164 Dr. Helfferich's allusions to, 290 his desire to crush Germany, 186 influence of, 184 on disarmament, 184 George V., King, his telegram to Prince Henry of Prussia, 9 German army, the General Staff, 22 German-Austria, 179 population of, 31 German Empire, the, creation of, 15, 66 German Government, _versus_ German Diplomacy, 10 German mentality, a typical instance of, 4 military party refuse peace, 32 German Nationalists and Count Andrassy, 25, 26 German policy founders on heritage left by Bismarck, 15 German-Russian differences as to occupied areas, 304 German Supreme Command and evacuation question, 312