March 31, 1905- The Day Europe was Put on Alert
Readers of William Whitaker’s Some Damn Fool Thing have been introduced to the events of March 31, 1905 in its first chapters, but from the perspective of over one hundred years it is difficult to appreciate the the basis and extent of the reaction that a speech by Kaiser Wilhelm elicited that day. The seeds for the dramatic response provoked by Wilhelm had been first sown some forty years previously […]