Plutocratic control, 183 Poincaré, President, 93, 121 Poland, 47, 118 Policy, diplomatic, 48, 58, 166 Polish Question, 118 Politics, essence of, 13, 39 Polk, Undersecretary, 203 Port Arthur, surrender, 72 Portugal, 15, 190 Potemkin, Prince, 41, 43 Press, control of, 145, 171 Pressensé, Francis de, 80 Prestige, 176 Preventive war, 13, 64, 106, 108 Private business and diplomatic affairs, 4, 140, 163, 169 Propaganda, 216 Prussia, 49, 53, 61, 62 Public opinion, crime against, 144 Public opinion and diplomacy, 58, 102, 112, 144, 166 ff. Publicity, 216, 217 Rashness, alleged, of the people, 177 “Raw material for brilliant careers,” 185 Realpolitik, 103 Reichstag, 102 Representative government, 58 Ribot, Alexander, 123 Roosevelt, President, 151 Rosebery, Lord, 66 Rosebery, Lord, on Anglo-Japanese treaty, 74 Rosebery, Lord, on Entente, 84 Rosen, Baron, 74 Roumania, 118 Russell, Lord John, 52, 57 Russia, 7, 37, 55, 65, 67, 70, 75, 78, 97, 104, 105, 108, 109, 114, 143, 146, 208, 212 Russian diplomatic policy, 112 Russian local agents, 54 Russo-French Alliance, 70 Russo-Turkish war, 65 Salisbury, Marquis of, 66, 157 San Domingo, 151 San Stefano, treaty of, 65 Sandwich, Earl of, 37 Savoy and Nice, 60 Sazonov, 112, 115, 133 Schleswig-Holstein, 61 Schuvalof agreement, 156 Secret diplomacy, abolition of, 127, 218 “Secret diplomacy” used in a special sense, 52, 57 Secret procedure, Paris Conference, 7 Secret service, 22, 28, 41, 50, 136, 137 Secret treaties, 48, 61, 65, 67, 71, 76, 78, 79, 113, 116 ff., 119, 134, 164 Senate and foreign affairs, 151, 197 Servian question, 104, 108, 113 Shantung, 117, 125, 128 Sixtus, Prince, of Bourbon, 120 South Pacific Islands, 119 Soviet Russia, 133, 179 Speech of August 3, 1914, 89, 96 Spheres of influence, 79 St. Petersburg, 40, 52, 73 Standing Committee of Foreign Affairs, proposed, 162, 164, 186 Standing committee on foreign and colonial affairs in France, 187 Stanhope, Lord, 31 Stratagem, 138 Stratford de Redcliffe, 54, 55, 57 Survival, 13 Suspicion, 6, 17, 54, 72, 100, 126, 136, 141 Sweden, 37 Talleyrand, 44, 46 _Temps_, 82 Tibet, 144 _Times_, London, 204, 205 Traité de diplomatie, Garden, 48 Treaties, publication of all, 188, 205, 206 Treaty of Versailles, 129 Triple Alliance, 70 Trotsky, 179 Truthfulness of diplomacy, 12, 30 Tschirsky, Von, 77, 106, 107 Turkey, 38, 67 Turkish Empire, 60 Twenty-one demands, 117, 125 Two-party system, 152 United Colonies of America, 149 United States, 119, 151, 174, 186, 194 ff., 201, 209 Vattel, 26 Vienna, Congress of, 45 Viviani, M., 115 Walpole, Sir Robert, 154 Walpole, Horace, 45 War, declaration of, 186, 187 Washington, Conference of, 1921, 16 Wells, H. G., 185