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==The Haldane mission (1912)==

==The Haldane mission (1912)==

In February 1912, British Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane arrived in Berlin and proposed that Portuguese and Belgian colonies be partitioned between Britain and Germany. The Germans would get the central African empire that they had demanded at the time of Agadir. But Wilhelm was no longer interested in colonies. Colonies were a way to justify spending on the navy. The kaiser's focus had shifted to the army. He denounced Haldane's proposal as a British trick designed to divide the German fleet.<ref name=rohl842>Röhl, p. 842.</ref> "We have enough colonies!" he wrote. "If I want some I shall buy them or get them without England!"<ref name=rohl842 /> The kaiser's rejection was just as well. Haldane's proposal was no better received in London than it had been in Berlin.

In February 1912, British Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane arrived in Berlin and proposed that Portuguese and Belgian colonies be partitioned between Britain and Germany. The Germans would get the central African empire that they had demanded at the time of Agadir. But Wilhelm was no longer interested in colonies. He saw colonies as a way to justify spending on the navy. After Agadir, the kaiser's focus shifted to the army. He denounced Haldane's proposal as a British trick designed to divide the German fleet.<ref name=rohl842>Röhl, p. 842.</ref> "We have enough colonies!" he wrote. "If I want some I shall buy them or get them without England!"<ref name=rohl842 /> The kaiser's rejection was just as well. Haldane's proposal was no better received in London than it had been in Berlin.

==Opposition in the Reichstag (1912-1913)==

==Opposition in the Reichstag (1912-1913)==