New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-02
Knows the Task Before
Her and Will Not Be
Turned Aside.
NATIONAL LEADERS
SEE ONLY VICTORY
All Declare the Great War Must
Result in Overthrow of
German Militarism.

IhTlS, mug l. OHutI lht N"pN''
After One Year" Gabriel Hanotaux,
ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, re-
views in the Figaro" to-day the
causes Of the war and the Historical
stages leading Germany logically to
this step and to cast the die for the
gigantic conflict in an attempt to I'M
pose domination on the world"
Germany prepared for this war"
says NJ. Hanotaux, with long hand
as an enterprise of universal DONNA
ton. Once ready, she chose her hour
and dragged along her accomplice,
Austria Hungary, and her other &C
complete, Turkey. Determined to stop
at nothing, the day when it became
necessary to sacrifice the worlds peace
and JOY to her material prosperity
and her pride Germany willed war"
This is proved by historic docu-
ments, NJ. Hanotaux says, and he re
views the growth of the German
"weltpoltik" idea, born at a meeting
aboard the Hohenzollern yacht in 1907,
recounted in Chancellor Won Buelow's
book, and from which came the motto,
"Our Future Is on the Seas" through
fifteen years OF military and naval
preparation TO 1912, when "the work
of preparation was accomplished and
Germany was ready to profit from the
first favorable circumstance"
To the historic evidences Of Ger
many's intentions, NJ. Hanotaux offers
what he terms further material and
moral proofs of Germany's fell pur-
pose"
Far-sighted Preparations.
From the material viewpoint" VI.
Fanotaux says, "the far-siohted and
formidable preparations OF the twin
empires with a view to war cannot be
denied. With the most savage reso-
luton, in absolute secrecy, with fists
clenched and lips closed, two empires
armed TO the death constructed mon
strous cannon, filled arserals with
arms and ammunition, and conceived
the prodigious mechanism for adapting
the arts of peace to the art Of war.
The whole country was regulated Ike
a barracks. Every slightest resource
was catalogued that nothing might be
lost, and all with the purpose of Of
fensiye action. There were inven-
toried in advance the means of defence
exploitable, and the riches of the
countries coveted. Universal espion-
age prepared the way for world con-
quest"
As moral proofs of Germsny's pur-
pose NJ Hanotaux cites the growth of
the conviction in Germany that a sue
cessful conquest is Its own full justl-
tcation and that the German people
were the chosen people, the predes-
tined people in the religious, philo-
sophie and scientific sense of the
word; that everything in the world
untouched by German influence must
remain retrograde and inferior"
1.-THE Germans are fighting" NJ.
Hanotaux adds, for the enslavement,
not the liberation, of the world. Were
things not in their conclusion as in
their origin these prodigious events
would be unmeaning, but never since
the birth of the world have there been
events more significant.
1--WE have gone about our task nd
know what that task is. France, espe
cially. is in her traditional role. nor
will she let herself be turned aside.
She struggles for ideals which re
hers; justice is greater than force;
right protects the weak; every 1ar
and every people has a right to dis
pose of his own. These mottos are
opposed to those of Germany's.
No Claim by France.
81 have lately re-read the Yellow
Book and have been struck by the fact
that not once during the course of the
negotiations preceding lie war did
France put forward the slightest claim
or offer any bargain whatsoever Not
once did she say: What guarantees
will you give? What will be my share ??
Other powers talked France ept
silent. IL can be said that events
passed without her participation. She
only bore their burdens.
THE light has shone on two oppos-
ing systems. History has chosen-t|- {
is the first result of the years war.
German theories, German doctrines
and German morality are irrepara1ly
lost. They appear now for what t'.ey
are and themselves have demonstrated
what they are-frightful materialistic