The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-28
SAYS FRANCE WAS
FORCED INTO WAR
French D%iplomatist Relates
Events Leading Up to
European Conflict.
RECALLS PEACE EFFORTS
Nv ROBINSON.

CAP MARTIN. Alpss Maritimes. Feb.
1e.-As one watches the progress OF
this terrible war one cannot help 70
turning. from time to time. to . con-
.,deration Of the causes which LED 10 IL,
and to a review OF the conditions Of the
countries now aking part In II. during
the past few years. I have been 40
fortunate as TO meet here a French
dlplomatist whose name Is we'll known
In the United states as well AZ In
Europe, a man whose long stay at the
CAPITAL OF Autria-Hungary and whose
acquaintance with the heads OF that
Government nave given him an ntimate
knowledge OF affairs in the dual
monarchy. and ] have cleaned from his
most interesting conversations q few
fact. which | will try to relate as much
as possible In the manner in which he
told them and with the expressions
which he used
yor forty-four years Frenchmen have
silently kept up their mourning for the
loss OF Alsace-Lorraine. In France the
shirt of the people has held in It's heart
since 1871 this grlevous loss, the sense
Of which strangers passing through gay
Paris would hardly realize we're II not
for the wrcaths and other memorials
placed on certain Anniversaries o the
statue Of Strashourg on the Place de
Ia Concorde as tributes to their sorrows.
Yet no one I'm France thought OF going
To war to reconduer Alsace-1orraine
Franco was peaceful, indeed needed
ne,re to develop her great colonia an
pire in Asia and Africa, built up BY
the untiring efforts OF her diplomacy!
under the Government OF the Third
R,nublic.
To the nation NJ large this war cAm<
ike a bolt from tho blue" and only Q
yery few far sighted people had seer
war clouds gathering. These signs oil
war were shown not only In Germany
In the past few years but perhaps ever
more clearly TO the careful student OF
diplomacy in the course ollowed By
Austria-Hungary. II was in 1906 tina
a great change came over the foreign
Motley OF the dual monarchy, owing Il
the appointment as Minister of Foreigr
Affairs OF Baron tafterward Count
Aerenthal. For ten years his pred
Count G~oluchowski. had followed
n policy Of understanding" with Russia
AS exemplifed 10y an agreement be
tween the two Powers in 1897. and b!
the famous programme" OF Mursteg II
1904.
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