Minister, Morocco, 1895-1904; Ambassador, Madrid, 1904-5;
Ambassador, Russia, 1905-10; Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
1910-16. Author of the _History of the German Constitution_, 1873.

[Illustration: LORD CARNOCK]




CHAPTER II

LORD CARNOCK

_"Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep
rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet
empty themselves with less noise."_--SECKER.


One evening in London I mentioned to a man well versed in foreign
affairs that I was that night meeting Lord Carnock at dinner. "Ah!" he
exclaimed, "the man who made the war."

I mentioned this remark to Lord Carnock. He smiled and made answer,
"What charming nonsense!" I asked him what he thought was in my friend's
mind. "Oh, I see what he meant," was the answer; "but it is a wild mind
that would say any one man made the war." Later, after some remarks
which I do not feel myself at liberty to repeat, he said: "Fifty years
hence I think a historian will find it far more difficult than we do now
to decide who made the war."