Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-26


70 make good as soon as our military
aims have been attained
The violation of Belgian neutrality
therefore. was deliberate. although
Germany had actnan, guaranteed
that neutrality and surely there has
been nothing more despscably mean
than 90 attempt 90 Justify ID eX-post'
facto hy bringing against the inno-
cent inoflensive Belgian government
and people the totally false charge Of.
having plotted asainst Germany.
THE German chancellor does not
emphasize in his latest speech that
charge which has been spread broad
east against Belgium. is il withdrawn,
and if so. will Germany make repara-
ton for the cruel wrong done to Bel
sium2
Explains Proposed Agreement.
These two negotiations for an AM
glo-German agreement in 1912, re-
ferred to by the German chancellor
We're brought TO a point at which il
was clear they could have no success
unless We, i'm effect gave "a promise of
absolute neutrality while Germany re-
manned free under her alliances TO
take part in an European war This
can and shall be explained 10y publish
ing an account of the negotiations
taken from the records in the foreign
office
The chancellor quotes an isolated
sentence of my speech Of the Srd of
August. 1914. To prove that we were
ready for war; In the very next sem
tence which he might have quoted
hut does not quote, l said. we are
going to suffer- l am afraid terribly
in this war. whether We are i'm it or
whether we stand aside leave %
To any one. outside of Germany in
any neutral country TO settle for him
self whether those were the words of
a man who had desired and planned an
European war or Of one who had la
bored to avert it, The extent of the
German chancellor's misapplicaton of
the isolated sentence which he quotes
will be obvious to any one who reads
the full context Of the speech.
Makes Categorical Denial.
AS to the other statement attribut-
ed to me. not even when we We're per
fectly free, when Japan, who was
our ally. had not entered the war and
when We were not pledged to the
other allies, as we are now by the
agreement of the 5th of September
1914. did / say anything so ridiculous
or untrue as that it was in the interest
Of Germany that We had gone to war
and with the object of restraining
Russia
"The war would have been avertcd
If the conference had been agreed 20.
Germany. on the flims:est preteXt
shut the door against IT, ! would reck
nothing on the point of form and eN-
pressed myself ready to acquiesce in
any method Of mediation that Ger
many could suggest if mine were not
acceptable. | said | was ready TO co.
operate in any method Germany
thought possible if only Germany
would press the button in the interest
Of peace
"The German chancellor, according
to his speech, encouraged nothing eX-
cept direct discussion between vi
emma and Petrograd. But what chance
had that of success when as We heard
afterwards. the German ambassador
at Vienna was expressing the opinion
that Russia would stand aside and
was conveying to his colleagues the
impression that he desired war from
the first and that his strong personal
bias probably colored his action there
World Nay Know Truth
Some day, perhaps the world viii
know what really passed between Ger
many and Austria respecting the ultl-
matum to Serbia and its consequences.
1t has become only too apparent that
in the proposal for the conference
which We made and which Russia,
italy and France agreed TO and which
Germany vetoed, lay the only hope Of
peace And it was such good hope!
Serbia had accepted nearly all the
Austrian ultimatum, severe and vio-
lent as it was The points outstanding
could have been settled honorably
ana fairly in conference in week
Germany ought to have known and
must have known that We should
take the same straight and honorable
part in it that she herself recognized
we had taken I'm The Balkan confer
ence. working not for diplomatic
victory. but for fair settlement
ready to side against any attempt to
exploit the conference unfairly to tho
disadvantage Of Germany and Austria.
THE refusal of the conference by
Germany, though it did not decide
British participation in the war did,
in fact decide the question of peace
or war for Europe and signed the
death warrant Of the many hun
dreds of thousands who have been
killed in this war.
Cars Proposal Rejected.
"Nor must it be forgotten that the
Of Russia proposed to the
German emperor that the Austro-Serb
dispute should be settled by The
Hague tribunal. Is there one candid
soul in Germany ana Austria-Hun-
gary who, looking back on the past
year does not regret that neither the
British nor the Russian proposal was
accepted?
"And what is the German program
as we gather it from the speech OF
the chancellor and the public utter
ances in Germany now-Gefmany toI
control the destiny of all other ma
tions. TO be the 'snieid of peace, oil
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