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Although the world Pree has made hundr of attecepta in the past ten years to from the former Emperor a personal statement regarding the fateful events leading up to the War, Wilhelm has until now remained silent. It is the first time, he has granted a statement to the Prens since the famous interview he gave to the London Daily Telegraph in 1906,
This statement is an outline of his case, Whether one agrees with it or not, it is an interesting and historie" document.."
The foreign policy programme of should sufficiently prove that there reign remained unchanged can be, ne just accusation of mili- throughout. The general outline of tarism on the part of Germany. this programme was contained in
Opportunities for Making Waz. my first speech from the Throne in
a reality, the dual alliance between. France and Russia and the triple alliance between Germany, Austria- Hungary, and Italy would have been cemented into one continental alliance which, as the foundation of a true League of Nations, would have meant a sufe pledge of endur- making this time succeeded in forging
the year 1688 In foreign policyThe German Government, more
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I am determined to maintain pence over, never allowed itself to be with all nations, in so far as it misled into taking advantage of lies in my power. My love for the opportunities, offering the most ing peace. The Allies, however, at German army and my position in favourable prospects,
the temptation of encroaching upon the benefits of peace to the country's detriment, tinless war be come & necessity, imposed upon ns by an attack on Germany or her allies. Our army shall ensure peace for us, and if peace be broken, shall enable us to re-establish peace with bonour. That, with God's help, we shall be able to accomplish through the strength it has acquired from the latest Armaments Bill passed unanimously by you. To employ this power for offensive ware is far from any heart. Germany has reed neither of how glory nor of con- quests since she has haally won for Eerself the right to exist as a united and independent nation."
war against France or Russia round the Central Powers an iron sccept at the hands of England the ventions, which were defensive humiliation of Fashoda, nor in alliances only on paper. GermSDY, 1599-1909, when Engand, during on the other hand, was not bound the Boer War, must have left by a military convention even with France: to shift for herself, nor in her one reliable ally Austria- 1908, during the first Morocco crisis, Hungary. when Russis was bleeding in the Far East and in the throes of Kaiser's Emorts for Peace in 1914. revolution. She did not take, ad- The German Government, to the vantage of the Bosnian crisis in last followed the same principles of 1908-08; when Russia had not yet peace in the crisis of July, 1914 recovered, and the Balkan Stater All our efforts anong which I may had not yet grown strong, and mention my proposal of a ** Halt in France had not yet thought of Belgrade," my personal appeal to dancing attendance on her Russian the Tear and the King of Engised, ally to meet the claims of Serbia; as well as my warning representa por of the second Morocco crisis of tions to the Emperor of Austria 1911, nor of the Balkan wars of were made vain by the general 1919 and 1913, when the military mobilisation of Russia, which position was very much more on the evening of July 20th, put favourable for the Central Rowers 111 divisions in the field Austria than in 1914. Gemany consistently conducted a policy of peace accord ing to plan
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only ordered her general mobiliza tion 18 hours after Russia, and in Germany, at almost the same hour about 10 hours after the Russian mobilisation-the state of immin
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„Kaiser Keeps the Peace. My reign remained faithful to these principles for 28 years; and I was able to continue the peace polier of my grandfather and of my father, thereby presenting Europe, from the year 1871, with
Aggressive Allien, no less than 43 years of peace.
German policy, owesponding, en wat danger not yet, there Never before has Europe enjoyed barboured no ambitions amsimal fore, the complete mobilitation so long a period undisturbed by by war alone. That it was other was first ordered in consequence of warlike events. The armament with wise with the Allies in to-day proy the announcement of the Russian trich we-lying in the heart ofed by the publication of secret pro mobilization. Since, through the the continent, without the proteswar, resolutions, secret agreements, military treaty between France and tion of natural frontiers were and private correspondence of the Russia world war, after the obliged to provide ourselves, never statesmen involved in the world Russian general movilization, be surpassed the essential. The war war; and, not least, by the manner came inevitable, everything else trength in the summer of 1914 in which the so-called Peace followed automatically. The deci amounted to 2,147,000 men for treaties were concluded Above eion for var had irretrievably been Germany, 1,400,000 for Australia all, the publication of certain taken by the Entente. Hungary altogether, therefore, papers from the Russian archives bas 3,347,000 men. The German General | given documentary, evidence of the Staff no longer reckoned on the agressive and imperialistic character "In Versailles the accusation wAS allied help of Italy. Against this, of the aims of the Allies. Through made that Germany had for decades the war strength of our prospective them we also know of the fact that, systematically been preparing the adversaries ran to 5,379,000 men in as early as 1913, negotiations were world war, and had seized the op all, riz; Russia 2,712,000, France afoot at Petersburg between Rus portunity in 1914 to loose her 2,130,000, England 138,000, Serbia sian and French statsemen anent thunderbolts. With great satisfac- 285,000, Belgium 100,000. So that the dividing of the skin of the tion I can to-day establish the fact there were 3,547,000 men on our German bear. You will seek in that this assertion is losing more side, and 5,378,000 men of the side rain for documents which testify and more of its supporters. The of the allies. As sea, there were to Germany's war aims in the same documents which have been publish fleets of 3,204,000 tonnage for the manner.. allies, as against 1,288.000 tonnage."--- "No"Ofensiva "Alliances. for the central powers. The peace strength of the fighting forces in Germany never formed any France amounted to 9 per cent. of alliances bearing the stamp of an the population, in Germany to 117 offensive policy. Bismarck's care- per cent. and in Austria-Hungary fully planned and thought-out system
Germany Not Responsible.
•hed meanwhile" Have proved to the world in po far as it is willing to recognize the truth-that the state- ment that Germany was responsible for the war does not bear examina- tion. More and more, historians, recoil from the ignominious pre-
the German people, as a basis for
to .94 per cent. France enrolled 18 of alliancea simed, as historical mise which attached the blame to to 87 per cent. of her conscripts, research reveals more and more, at Germany (until 1913) ouly 50 to 53❘ the maintenance of peace. My dictating terms of peace. The more per cent. France gave $420 marks reign progressed along the lines yearly per had of population for laid down If the agreement or military requirements, Germany rived at between the Taar and my only 16.38 marks, These figures self at Bjerke in 1905 had become.
light is shed upon the past, the more will this assumption. be exposed for what, in truth, it is-The great He of Versailles!
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