Joseph Chamberlain.
“At a lunch in Potsdam on 23 Oct. [1901] [Wilhelm II] made an attack on Joseph Chamberlain. He had previously expressed his opinion to Wallcourt Waters [British military attaché]that Chamberlain should spend a night in the veldt [in S. Africa]. This time the suggestion was more draconian: Chamberlain should be taken to South Africa, marched across the continent and then shot … Waters objected: ” … many of our countrymen would like to see Mr. Chamberlain prime minister of England. They positively adore him.” “Ach was”, said William, “They couldn’t.” Two days later Chamberlain responded in kind, with an anti-German speech in which he excused the brutal behaviour of British troops in South Africa by pointing to the precedent established by the Germans when dealing with snipers during the Franco-Prussian War.” (G. MacDonogh, The Last Kaiser [Londen 2001], p. 265)