ABSTRACT
After the crisis of Agadir, M. Georges Bourdon visits Germany to make an inquiry for the Figaro newspaper into the state of opinion there. His mission belongs to the period between Agadir and the outbreak of the first Balkan war. He interviewed a large number of people, statesmen, publicists, professors, politicians. Georges found pride in the army a determination is strong and that belief is in the war that the state expresses itself at the highest and the best it shows which is part of the tradition of German education since the days of Treitschke. Yet, in spite of all this, to which M. Bourdon does full justice, the general impression made by the conversations he records is that the bulk of opinion in Germany was strongly pacific. The German Government finds the Pangermans embarrassing or convenient according as the direction of its policy and the European situation changes from crisis to crisis.
