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Rh But neither the Chief of Staff nor the Kaiser himself succeeded in overcoming the passive resistance of the gentlemen of the Ballplatz, who had once made up their minds to see in the Italians not an ally but an enemy.

And like Italy, on account of this sullen perverseness, the other ally whom Germany still had, Rumania, also threatened to fail her. This must have given rise to serious anxiety, and still more the attitude of England.