him I was greatly surprised to see him take up the cudgels so zealously on behalf of claims of whose extent and range he was unaware.
"'Mind' interrupted Herr von Jagow, ' it is only because we are talking personally with each other that I allow you to say that to me.'" (French Yellow Book of 1914, No. 30.)
The same assurance was received from the virtuously indignant Jagow by the British Chargé d' Affaires, Sir H. Rumboldt, who reported thereon to London on July 25th:
"The State Secretary repeated very earnestly, that although he had been accused of having known the entire contents of the Note, he, as a matter of fact, had not had this knowledge." (Blue Book, 1914, No. 18.)
Cambon reported on this conversation on the same day:
"The British Chargé d' Affaires also inquired of Herr von Jagow, as I did yesterday, whether Germany had had no knowledge of the Austrian Note before it was dispatched, and received such an unequivocal denial that he could not pursue the subject. But he could not refrain from expressing his surprise at the complete carte blanche that Germany had given Austria." (Yellow Book, No. 41.)
Sir Horace Rumboldt, who received these assurances, was the same whose statements concerning "Germany's
