Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1921 edition. Extrait: ...His Majesty, instead of telling me this in a friendly manner, with his former candor, urged my retirement by ungracious methods. Hitherto I personally had felt no ill humor. I was honestly ready to help the Kaiser to shape affairs as he desired. This mental ...
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1921 edition. Extrait: ...His Majesty, instead of telling me this in a friendly manner, with his former candor, urged my retirement by ungracious methods. Hitherto I personally had felt no ill humor. I was honestly ready to help the Kaiser to shape affairs as he desired. This mental condition of mine was first disturbed by the steps taken on the 15th, 16th, and 17th, which exempted me from any personal responsibility for my resignation from service and necessitated my breaking up a household which had existed for a lifetime at a day's notice; yet to this day I have not with absolute certainty learned the actual reason of the rupture. CHAPTER VIII MY DISMISSAL On the morning of the 14th of March I inquired whether I should attend for the presentation of my report on that or the following day, but I received no answer. My intention was to inform the Kaiser of a conversation which I had had with Windthorst on the 12th, and of certain communications which had reached me from Russia. On the morning of the 15th, at nine o'clock, I was awakened with the news that His Majesty had just had it announced that I should make a speech in the "Foreign Office" at nine-thirty, by which was meant, in accordance with the usual custom, my son's official residence. There we received the Kaiser. To my remark that I had almost been too late, since I had been awakened only twentyfive minutes earlier by His Majesty's command, the Kaiser replied: "So? I gave the order yesterday afternoon." Later it came out that he had first settled the time for the report after ten o'clock at night, and that there was as a rule no egress from the palace in the evening. I began my report: "I am able to inform Your Majesty that Windthorst has come out of...
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