TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1915-04-26

net, OF oar parliament and sIectorate
Grey set himself to follow Sasonofi
who has had him In his waistcoa
| pocket for a long time past.
| Fifth. Germany was quite read,
60 take on France and Russia II the,
gave her chance, but did not want {:
take on, Us as well, and that Is VIII,
Dethmann- Hollwcg on tie afternoon ol
july 20. as soon as he heard Of the hos
tile attitude Grey had taken up te
Licinowsky tsee our White Paper SOL
sent in hot haste to Goschcn at II p. m
TO make bid for our neutrality lwhits
Paper s5) and the same night ut 2 a. m,
to sasynoff ibid 97). That Count
PourtaIcs, man whom, from all
have read about him, should dearly
like to meet, completely broke down
in this interview and appealed to Sa-
sonoff To- make some suggestion which
he could telegraph TO the German
government as last hope" proves how
anxious Germany was to keep the
peace at this time. But sasonoff al
ready knew from Paul Cambon OF
Grey's virtual ultimatum Gbid s9) TO
Lichnowsky aud was iaexorable.
Sixth. = Germany's ono aim now was
TO avoid war in which England would
almost certainly be, drawn i'm, as
Grey puts 1t, by his secret agreement
with France and through France With
Russia. Accordingly Germany accepted
any terms from sasonof and urged
Austria to accept them. Sasonoff Gbid
1881 admits TO DE Ettsr that Austria
accepted them and had done SO already
when he luobiiized against Germany.
Grey Threatens to Resign.
Seventh. - Meanwhile Grey had great
difficulty with the cabinet. majority
Of whom fatty refused to go to war
with Germany over servia and preferred
to throw over Grey's naval and other
agreements with France twich on July
80. cambcn urged Grey TO execute with.
out delay; see White Paper 1861. Grey
threatened to resign, but on July 81.
agreed to stay on until 1t was known
II Germany would respect or not Bel.
gjan neutrality, as to which, on July ~.
white Paper s5), the German chan
cellor had spoken ambiguousiy.
But Belgian neutrality was the only
thing the majority OF our cabinet really
cared about, and unlcss IL, small
country, was violated BY Germany,
big one, the English people could not be
relied upon to Join in any war. Accord
ingly on the afternoon OF July 81.
Goschen sounded Won Jagow about
Teleium. and he could not answer with.
out consulting the Kaiser and the chan
eellor. The Kaiser, ever anxious 70
keep us out land probably aware also
that Russia would retire across the
golden bridge he had built az soon as
ever she learned that we we're going %
be neutral and not help her In her de.
signal, ordered Lichnowsky to offer 70
respect Belgium and also. to guarantee
integrity OF France and OF French colo
mics TO offer, In short, any eondi.
tions in order TO keep Us out. Our
cabinet, In its turn anxious only to get
from Germany favorable answer
about Belgium and TO be able 10 keep
the peace with Germany, met early on
Arg. !. and drew up memorandum
about It, which Grey was to submit to
Liehnowsky.
In our White Paper No. i23 may be
read Grey's own abstract Of his conver.
sation with Lichnowsky. At about ! 40
on Aug. l. Lichnowsky freely offered to
respect Belgium and also to guarantee
the integrity Of France and OF her colo
nies, although France twho really nee
ied q straight wsisteoat TO keep her
out Of quarrel which was not hers) |
could not complain, II she was beaten,
II Germany helping herself to some Of
her colonies. Grey might have said to
lichnowsky that he could not barter our
against an undertaking BY
Germany to respect Belgium, seeing that
4 was anyhow Germany's duty to re.
spect Belgium.
However, our cabinet was in barter
ng mood, and they only wanted an ex-
'use for not going TO war with Ger.
many. Liclmowsky therefore adopted
lie bartering tone, and so did Grey.
;ray evidently expected Lichnowsky 10
,ffer no sort OF terms, and when Lieh.
iowsky made the proposals as he did
md furthermore besoueht him TO for.
nulate any conditions on which Eng
and would consent to be neutral Grey
cfused all on the pretext OF keeping
is handsfree tsee No. 1921. Lichnowsky
rust have gone away with the convie-
ion that Grey anyhow wanted war.
Iermany's Proposals Concealed From
the Cabinet.
Now, our cabinet plainly expected
srey "a retlort IN them nj onee any