Part of Report by Hugh Watson, Naval Attaché at the British embassy in Berlin, 12th March 1913.
Crown copyright. Reference: Churchill Papers, CHAR 13/19/44-6.
"In the winter of 1911-12 criticism of the Naval expansionist policy began to grow in Germany, and really began to show an effective head for the first time in recent years. Had it not been for the violent anti-English propaganda, which was commenced in Nov 1911 on the rumours of a project in the previous summer on the part of England to attack the German Fleet, the criticism above referred to would have made more effective headway."