Bagdad Railway, 89, 90. Balholm, 247. Balkans, 106, 165, 199, 200. Ballin, Albert, 3, 107, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 158. Baltic, 105. Baltisch-Port, 169-170, 249. "Baralong" murderers, 264. Barrère, Camille, 126. Battlefields of 1870-71, 330. Bavaria, 60. _Belgian Documents_, 127. Belgium, 42, 43, 309, 326. Bender, Herr von, 29-30, 31. Benedetti, Ambassador, 326. Benedictine monks, 216. Bennigsen, Rudolf von, 30, 31, 32. Berchem, Count, 54, 329. Bergen, 312. Berlin Treaty, 10, 11, 14; Congress, 2, 15, 17, 20, 327. Berlin, University of, 199; Palace Chapel at, 218. Bertram, Prince-Bishop, 208. Beseler, Max, 187. Bethmann Hollweg, von, Chancellor, 124-134; "the governess," 132; enjoys confidence of foreign countries, 134; dismissed, 134; his diplomatic power, 138, 246; mistakes in 1914, 328; wished to avoid war, 328; tried to keep England out of the Entente, 328. Beuron Congregation, 216. Biebrich-Mosbach, 179. Bismarck, Bill, 3. Bismarck, Count Herbert, 2, 5, 6, 12, 27, 28, 76. Bismarck, Prince, Chancellor, 1-53; greatness as a statesman, 1; services to Prussia and Germany, 1; creator of the German Empire, 1; Memoirs, 3, 4; fight against the Kaiser, 2; appreciation by the Prince of Prussia (later the Kaiser), 2; majordomo of the Hohenzollerns, 3; and the harbor of Hamburg, 4; the third volume of his reminiscences, 4; continental preparations, 7; his Congress, 10; "honest broker," 10, 11; "Now I am driving Europe four-in-hand," 11; retirement of, 18, 53; and the Socialists, 40; his labor views, 41; and the Vulcan shipyards, 48; succeeded by Caprivi, 54; fight his successor, 55; "misunderstood Bismarck," 55, 76; reconciliation with Kaiser, 92; eightieth birthday, 93; "Germany must never become England's dagger on the European continent," 311; and the Congress of Berlin, 327. Bismarckian theory, 102. Björkö agreement, 201, 249, 315. Bissing, General von, 43. Black Sea, 105, 191, 192. Blockade, English, 318. Boches, 262. Bolsheviki, 181, 254, 284. Bonn, 214. Bonnal, General, 312. _Book of the German Fleet_, 184. Bosmont, 254. Bosnia, 324, 326. Bötticher, His Excellency von, 3, 38. Boyd-Carpenter, W., Bishop of Ripon, 213. Brandenburg, 196. _Brandenburg_, 231. Breitenbach, Paul von, 180, 181, 182. Brest-Litovsk, 14, 16, 136, 253, 335; Treaty of, 335. Brest mission, 4. Bucharest, Treaty of, 335. Buckingham Palace, 142. Budde, Hermann, 178, 179. Bülow, Prince von, 68; Chancellor, 95-123, 192, 194, 195, 233, 310, 311, 314, 315. Burchard, Doctor von, 156, 157-158, 159. Burian, Stefan, 272. C Cabinet, German War, 23, 277, 280; Civil, 25, 35, 134, 136; English, 310, 311. Cæsar, 295. Calmuck Cossacks, 254.