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<p>[Page 69]</p><p>of this step; on the contrary, I think we should not do anything further and let the other side do whatever they want to do. I have firmly resolved not to get involved in any camp matter anymore, not even the smallest one, let alone sign anything. You only get your fingers dirty!</p><p>30th/3/18.<br />The English are laughing up their sleeves because once again a German diplomat did them a service. This time it's Prince Lichnowsky, the last German ambassador to England before the war. He wrote, presumably for the "family archives", an account of political events in London in the lead-up to the war that is highly favourable to England and accuses Germany of having caused the war. He showed this document to some of his political friends and through some indiscretion, its content was published in a Swedish political journal. He writes: [original in English]</p><p>As usual, we took the wrong side - dynastic as against democratic ideas. We have always ridden the wrong horse, whose collapse was foreseeable. They were [Paul] Kruger, Abdul Abid, Abdul Hamid [Sultan of the Ottoman Empire] and William Wied [Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania].</p>