Excerpt from Documentary History of the War, Vol. 9: Diplomatic Part 3 In England, as in Germany, there were at that time two schools of opinion concerning this matter - the optimists, who believed in the possibility of an understanding, and the pessimists, who regarded war as inevitable sooner or later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.