Germany, Bismarck creator of German Empire, 1; constitution of, 2, 139-141; alliance with Austria, 5; animosity of Russian military circles against, 17; as peace maker, 20; maintenance of, 31; conditions of laboring classes in, 36-50; first armored ship, 48; merchant marine, 48; shipbuilding industry, 51, 235; corps, naval officer, 51, 52, 53, 112, 230; reinsurance treaty with Russia, 54; and Kiao-Chau, 64-68, 74; coaling stations, 64, 69-70; and United States, 71 n., 72-74; difficulty of training up good diplomats in, 76; English commercial envy of, 79; Russia and France's proposal to attack England, 87; Cecil Rhodes's admiration for Berlin and tremendous German industrial plants, 88; difference between Germans and English, 92; reform of military punishment procedure, 93; Naval law, 93, 146, 147; appointment of Waldersee, 93; Boxer war, 93; Tsing-tao, 94; Yangtse Treaty, 94; relations with England become more complicated, 95; France, Russia, and, in the Far East, 105; validity of an alliance, 106; failure of plan, 106; disturbed relations among the parties in the Reichstag, 111; popular demonstration at defeat of Social Democrats, 114; Edward VII at Kiel, 115; Kaiser's _Daily Telegraph_ interview, 118; press demands Fürstenberg to "tell the Emperor the truth for once," 119; Conservatives' "Open Letter," 122; retirement of Bülow, 123; Bethmann Hollweg appointed Chancellor, 124; growing desire for revenge and enmity of France, 126; German-French Morocco Agreement, 126; Austro-Hungarian allies, 128; "Nation in Arms," 135, 259; Chancellor's powers, 139-141; German French agreement, 146; "A verbal note!" 147, 148; astonishment at, 149; discussion and reply, 149-150; negotiations, 153-155; verbal note disavowed by England, 159; Haldane "cheated" the Germans, 162; blamed on Kaiser and von Tirpitz, 162; the Central Canal, 174; railways, 175-182; schools, 183-185; forests, 189; science and art, 196-207; must become sword of the Catholic Church, 211; revolution, 213, 218, 224; Protestant Union, 214-215; officer corps, 225, 226; noncommissioned officer corps, 225, 230; development of Heligoland, 238; first big fighting ship, 241; U-boats, 242-243; democratization of, 258; Germans on all battlefields, 260; "Germans always defeated by Germans," 260; "In Germany every Siegfried has his Hödur behind him," 260; atrocities, 260; protection of churches, châteaux, castles, and art treasures, 260; failure of August 8, 1918, 272, 273; movement for setting up of new government, 274; inner situation of army, 274, 279; revolutionary agitation in, 274, 275; general desire for ending fighting, 275; achievements of fighters and nation in arms, 276;