Agent of Peace by Jennifer Hobhouse Balme

Author:Jennifer Hobhouse Balme
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750963367
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-02-02T16:00:00+00:00

Correspondence Between Emily Hobhouse and Baron Gottlieb von Jagow, German Foreign Secretary

Excellence Baron von Jagow

18th June 1916

Dear Herr von Jagow2

Five or six years have passed since I used to meet you at Marchesa de Viti de Marco’s house in Rome and much has happened since then to blot those calm days from our memory.

I believe, however, that I am indebted to you, ultimately, for this unprecedented privilege that has been granted to me of visiting Belgium and Berlin in wartime. I want to thank you with all my heart for this privilege.

It is my great and passionate desire to do all that a single individual can do, to draw our two countries together once more and to this end I believe (as far as my own country is concerned) a knowledge of the truth is the first step necessary. Hence, my desire to see Belgium, Ruhleben, etc.

Further, I believe it to be a point of supreme importance to be able to convey to the English Government my belief that Germany cannot be overcome by the food difficulty – if I can obtain sufficient data to support and justify that opinion.

It would, I fear, be unjustifiable to ask to see you personally in this stress of work and thank you by word of mouth as I should wish to do; but at any rate I do not like to be in Berlin without giving you this bare outline of my purpose and without sending a direct word of gratitude for your chivalrous understanding of my wishes.

Both in Berne and Brussels I have received the greatest kindness and I hope to carry home a point of view that shall have real weight and value.

I have the honour to be

Yours faithfully

Emily Hobhouse

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