Vredenburch, Herr von, Dutch Ambassador to Roumania, 104

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Wales, Prince of (see Edward VII., King)

Wallachia, occupation of, 99, 105

Wallhead, Mr., 295

Washington Cabinet, and Austria-Hungary’s attitude to submarine
  warfare, 279

Wassilko, Nikolay, leader of Austrian Ruthenians, 247, 249

Wedel, Count, calls on Count Czernin, 127
  disclosures of, 161 (note)
  revelations of, 155 (note)

Weisskirchner, Burgemeister, coins the term “bread peace,” 257

Wekerle, Dr., and the Polish question, 203
  author and, 136, 230
  on the Ukrainian question, 242
  standpoint of, on Roumanian peace negotiations, 260, 319

Western front, an Entente break-through on, 183

Western Powers, the, and Germany’s ambitions, 2

Wiesner, Ambassador, von, and a Pan-German, 161
  at Brest-Litovsk, 236
  author discusses Russian peace with, 219

Wilhelm, Crown Prince, and Franz Ferdinand, 43
  anxious for peace, 72
  author’s conversation with, 74
  his quarters at Sedan, 74

William I. and Bismarck, 65

William II., Emperor, and Bismarck, 52
  and Franz Ferdinand, 42
  and the German Supreme Military Command, 17
  as causeur, 66
  as the “elect of God,” 52, 53
  cause of his ruin, 62 et seq.
  demonstrations against, in the Reichstag, 54
  desires to help deposed Tsar, 70
  difficulties of his political advisers, 60
  fails to find favour in England, 63
  his projected division of the world, 67
  impending trial of:  author’s protest, 66
  informed of serious nature of situation for Allies, 332
  instructions to Kuehlmann, 249
  long years of peaceful government, 68
  longs for peace, 70
  on food troubles in England, 145
  on impending attack on Italian front, 71
  presents author with “Der Kaiser im Felde,” 64
  Prince Hohenlohe and, 65
  question of his abdication, 75
  the Press and, 65
  warlike speeches of, 68

Wilson, President, advantages of his “Fourteen Points,” 188
  as master of the world, 192
  author on his Message, 305
  Count Andrassy’s Note to, 25
  Count Czernin on, 192
  Entente’s reply to his peace proposal, 118, 120, 123
  his Fourteen Points and the Peace of Versailles, 271
  on the freedom of the seas, 281
  ready to consider peace, 250
  reopens hopes of a peace of understanding, 189
  speech to Congress, 193
  text of the Fourteen Points, 323

Wolf, K.H., a scene in the “Burg,” 169

World-domination, Germany’s dream of, 1, 2

World organization, a new, principles of, 174 et seq.

World War, the, an important phase of, 107
  attempts at peace, 134 et seq.
  author’s impressions and reflections on, 195 et seq., 271 et seq.
  by whom started, 18 (note)
  causes of, 3
  President Wilson and, 188 et seq.
  questions of responsibility for outbreak of, 2