Translations:CP 03097/55/en
- ↑ Le Figaro, 10 March 1916, page 2, announces: "Germano-Portuguese breakdown of relations: The German minister in Lisbon recalled." The following day the same newspaper announced: "Germano-Portuguese breakdown of relations: State of war declared." In his reply of 17 May 1916 Hauser corrects Proust's error: "I have never had Portuguese nationality. I was born a British subject having been born on British soil (that is to say Gibraltar)." (CP 03099; Kolb, XV, no. 35). [PK, FP]