[Footnote 56: _Ibid_. No. 159. Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, Aug. 4]




CHAPTER V


NEGOTIATORS AND NEGOTIATIONS

For purposes of reference the following list of _dramatis personae_ may
be useful:--

GREAT BRITAIN: King George V, _succ_. 1910.
_Foreign Secretary_: Sir Edward Grey.
_Ambassadors from France_: M. Paul Cambon.
_Russia_: Count Benckendorff.
_Germany_: Prince Lichnowsky.
_Austria_: Count Albert Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein.
_Belgium_: Count A. de Lalaing (_Minister_).

RUSSIA: Emperor Nicholas II, _succ_. 1894.
_Foreign Secretary_: M. Sazonof.
_Ambassadors from Great Britain_: Sir George Buchanan.
_France_: M. Paléologue.
_Germany_: Count Pourtalès.
_Austria_: Friedrich Count Szápáry.

FRANCE: Raymond Poincaré, _President, elected_ 1913.