 One of the few times that the "Staatsrat" allowed himself to get "hot under the collar".The exasperation he expressed came from a feeling of being squeezed from two sides – his fellow Christians who resented him for working to remove their privileges vis-à-vis the Jews, and the Rothschilds in whom centuries of persecution had embedded suspicion and wariness.Five years later, Bethmann expressed his thoughts in a less passionate manner in another letter.