Morris tribune., 1917-09-07
THE POTsDAM CONSPIRACY
From the Literary Digest.


deathknel of that monotonous sentence-ths war that
was forced upon us-which Kaiser, and other
German leader invariably include in their speeches. Thls
phrase carefully supprest in every German paper but
one-the Minority Socialist Lepzger Volkszetung-noW
as thorn in the flesh of the Government at the
Berlin Vorwarts What Mr.. Haase said was:
Tho the peace-resoluton is advance our pre-
vios attitude it acceptable to the Minority party
What the resolution about the origin OF the war IS
not tenable the face of history, and the Minority
refuses to lend declarations at variance with the
truth
.The same APPLIES to the shallow explanations of the
Chancellor We do not forget the Austrian utimatum to
Serva the preparations against Russia the
conferences in July s. 1914 and the activity
of Tirpitz and Falkenhayn in those days"
What happened on July 5, 1914 that the date has
been so studiousy eliminated by the from every
renort of this speech but London Times tells
us, says:
I'VE have received the following important COM
muntcation from wel-informed correspondent:
I'm the report of Herr Haases speech in the Reichs
tag week. which appears in the Leipziger Vokzetung
of July TO- reference to the meeting of July
1914 as one of the which will have to be
planned before the origin of the fully understood
This the first public reference to date which will
probably become the most famous of the tateu month
of July, 1914
II have it on authority which it is difficult, if not
impossible to that the meeting referred to was
meeting which held at Potsdam on the date named
There were present the Kaiser, Herr Bethmann-
Hollweg Admiral Tirptz, General Won Falkenhayn
Herr Won Stumm, the Archduke Frederick Count Berch
told Count Tisza, General Conrad Hotzendorf
1t appears Jagow and Count Moltke were
present
.The meeting DISGUST and decided upon all the prin-
cipa points Austrian ultmatum which to be
dispatched to Serva eighteen days later 1t
Russia would probably refuse to submit to
such direct humiliation, and that would result.
That consequence the meeting definitely decided to accept
probable but certain, that the date of mobiliza
fxt at the time.
1.-THE KAISER as is we'll known, then left for Norway,
the object of throwing dust in the of the French
Russian Governments. Three weeks later, when it
that England would not remain neutral,
Herr Bethmann-Howeg wished to withdraw, but it
was The decision of July irrevocabIe.
"The peculiar way rather ways, in which these
facts have become known not yet be told But it
certain that most of Herr Haase's hearers fully
of the meaning of his reference to July 5. For
the subject appears have been fully and explicitly
session of the Budget Committee of the
Rechstag eight ago by the Socialist Deputy Herr
Cohn He challenged certain Minister to deny the facts.
the establishment of the other deputies, the Minister
did deny the facts but declined to make any state
ment"
Discussing these revelations edtorially, The Times
says:
would be hard to exaggerate the gravity of the
disclosure The for three years have been posing
the innocent and guileess victims Of Entente perdy
and craft Herr Mchaes still appeals the events of
July, 1914, fx in history prove the righteousness
their and to whitewash his predecessor But if
the meeting of July s. what told was, the
chief military and civilian authorities of the Central
Powers gathered together in time of profound tran
Quy to conspire, under the presidency of the Kaiser
against the peace Of Europe what becomes of the
pretense that Germany ignorant Austrian
to Servia and what of her oft-repeated
to the last she did her utmost war? has
fastened the blame, upon Russia and upon Eng
land Here she the center the director
a cold-blooded and deliberate plot she and he1
accomplces consider weeks beforehand they shall
make it impossible for Servia accept demands ant
impossible for Russia to tolerate them. Herr Michae
looks forward to the day when the history this wal
lies before u.s.. Let him begin open it now if h
s. 1914, and support it by the publication of the whole
correspondence between Berlin and Vienna that fate
full month The Allies have challenged Germany again
and again to produce those papers. 1900.
eve trust that in any case the Allied Government
will longer hesitate to bring forward the evidence
which they possess of the relations between conspr
ators in the period before the war"
The official NOrddeutsche Agemeine Zetung O
course has promptly denied any such meeting tool
place, but remarks the Yorkshire Post there
nothing else for it to do" Meanwhile some confrma
Cambon, who French Ambassador to Berlin at tn
time, remarked to the Associated Press:
II have to believe that these revelations
which place this date the responsibility and intiatv