Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 10, 11 January 1923 — Page 2

i'AUE TWO

The Mistakes of the Kaiser By RENE VTVTANT Premier of France When the War Broke Out Copyright, 1922. by The McClure Newspapet Syndicate.

XXVI THE KAISER'S LAST ' CHANCE OF GREATNESS Herr von Snhnen takes him (OTl Jagow) to task for having asked guar antees or JTance ana asserts mat n was Germany -who ought to have giv en them to i ranee in compensation tor ' the shame demanded of her. But Herr ,von Schoen did not know Ilerr von would act as he -would have acted, reation, would appear to accept the dishonoring proposal and, once the' German army was busy against Russia, would seek to strike that army in the rear. In order to prevent this, he demanded Toul and Verdun, which -would have made it possible to thwart such military action on the part of France. The man -who lied to the French ambassador and the Russian ambassador by stating that, in case of Russian mobilization against Austria. Germany 5 ould not mobilize, who vouched to th 9 world for that historical piece of Imposture, the yarn about the French aeroplanes flying over Nuremberg, was assuredly the only man capable of f-uch a line of reasoning. Even then, though, France and the French government did not deserve to be so judged. To be misjudged by Bismarck of the powerful brain, clear vision, and crushing hand, is intolerable, but to be misjudged by Herr von Jagow! no, really, we should not have been compelled to descend as low as that! This fact deserves special attention because it casts a light on German psychology, to which must be attributed in great part the malady from which Germany suffers. What has dragged Germany Jo the abyss is mistaken moral estimate of others, due to contempt; it is under-estimation of valor; failure to recogniza contingencies, total inability to allow foJ th revolt of the human conscience. For Germany, that great methodical factory, manufactures nothing but material things, and man himself today, in the land of Kant and Goethe, has been degraded to the level of a material thing. I shall not harp on this theme but. anyhow, did Herr von Jagow actually think that, even if there had been a government which had sunk so low as to accept such a bargain, the French Legislature would have ratified this shameful step which, at one fell "blow, sullied the most splendid national history? Truly, i: is painful to be a contemporary of a man who, when he designs to think of you at all. looks at himself in a mirror and thinks that you are h. A Last Light of Hope. Lot us return to the ultimatum sent to Russia on the Slst. the time-linyt on which was to expire Aug. 1. It is iirtuoaai y lu uccii 11113 laiat ulc iu mind. As we already know, as we shall see again., that day. even in the state that Europe was in, even when all around us was quaking, might have ended while there was still a happy human race in existence. Alas! it was but the appearance in the heavens of a sort of brightness which preceded the lightning. Austria agreed to enter into discussion with Siberia and that another power should ask her, in the name of Serbia, what her terms were. It was the Austrian ambassador at Paris who gave me this information wnd there was a similar conciliatory move on the part of the Austrian ambassador at St. Petersburg. Immediately M. Sazonoff accepted the proposal of preliminary conferences at London. Light burst forth everywhere. And then all again was plunged into darkness! , Ilerr von Bethmar.n-IIollweg withdrew the conciliatory dispatches which ho had sent during the morning to Vienna, drawing attention to Russian and French preparations! To counteract these, and in crder that Russian general mobilization be discontinued, he sent the ultimatum. "Why? What was to be understood from this? M. Cambon was to enlighten us. I copy irom the Yellow Book the tDllowing dispatch, Xo. 121: VM. Jules Cambon, French ambassador at Berlin, to M. Rene Viviani. president of the council, minister of foreign at'iairs. "Berlin, Aug. 1, 1914. "My Russian colleague received yesterday c-vening two telegrams from M. Sazonoff advising bim that the Austrian ambassador at St. Petersburg had explained that hi3 government was ready to discuss the note to Serbia with the Russian government even as to its basis; M. Sazonoff answered tnat In his opinion these conversa tions should take place in London. I he ultimatum can only do away with the last chances of peace which these conversations still seemed to loave. The question may be asked Thether in such circumstances the ac ceptance by Austria was serious, and had not Iho obiert of throwiner the re FOR GIRLS WHO WORK Mrs. Lodic Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helped Her Tyrone, Pa. "A friend told my husband how Lydia E. 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sponsibility of the conflict on to Russia. "My British colleague during the night made a pressing appeal to Herr von Jagow's feelings of humanity. The latter answered that the matter had gone too far and that they must wait for the Russian answer to the German ultimatum. But he told Sir Edward Goeschen that the ultimatum required that the Russians should countermand their mobilization, not only as against Germany but also as against Austria; my British colleague was much astonished at this .and said that it did not seem possible for Russia to accept this last point, "Germany's ultimatum,' coming at the very moment when an agreement seemed about to be established between Vienna and St. Petersburg, is characteristic of her warlike policy. "In truth the conflict was between Russia and Auvtria only, and Germany could only intervene as an ally of Austria; in these circumstances, as the two Powers which were interested as principals were prepared for conversation, it is impossible to understand why Germany should send an ultimatum to Russia instead of continuing like all the other Powers to work for a peaceful solution, unless she desired war on her own account. "J. Cambon." I have quoted this dispatch in full in order really to bring to light Germany's responsibility. Let there be no more talk of mobilizations, with the juggling of dispatches, falsified as regaids their dates and substance! We have shown what ought to be thought about these and that the entire burden of responsibility devolved upon Austria and Germany. But, even were this not so, let us recapitulate? Austria is under arms, also Germany, but not Russia, who must devote 16 days to concentrating her forces! Leaving aside disputes as to time and maps, in spite of their terrible mute testimony against Germany and Austria, let us explain, once for all, to history, just what it was that Germany feared. von Schcen Liked the French Wa3 it France? It will suffice to read what Herr von Schoen telegraphed to Berlin to see what he thought about her. The German Am bassador, who lived in our midst who saw me every day, or nearly every day, who, naturally, derived information from his officers who worked with him, who had been living among us during five years, and knew about men and matters in our country did tne i-rencn justice, in dispatches ot his which were despicably omitted from the first White Book. What could the value be, beside the testimony of a man who was present and who was enough attached to his own country not to deceive it, of the ridic ulous judgment of a von Jagow and the ravings of a hireling press? France? She had not mobilized; ever since July 30, at noon she had in obe dience to my order, kept her soldiers at a distance of ten kilometers from the frontier. The mind would be driv en to madness seeking to understand, were it not that it had already understood. Ah, that fifth day of July, 1914, that day on which extermination was de cided upon by the German Emperor when he got up from a table, he who, alteady, was preparing for his hypo critical crusade. Now, I ask is the significance of that day clear? And the dispatch hidden by the criminals since it was the weapon for the crime, the dispatch wherein the Emperor ad vised Herr von Bethmann to act in such a way as to let the responsibility fall upon Russia? that dispatch re mains in existence. The German General Staff had wished war for many years; it wished war ardently on the evening of July 29; it wished it frenziedly on the 31st and would let nothing stand in the way of its desire. I do not know whether the Emperor, who in his Memoirs points to the domination un

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