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the mission of piracy and murder. And then our turn and that of Latin Amer ica The first attack not on us, but point to which it would be as difficult for us to send troops to help our neighbors as it would be for Germany to attack.
 Remember that in southern Brazil nearly 100000 Germans are sustained, as l found out, in their devotion to ! the Fatherland by annual grants of money, for educational purposes, from i the Imperial Treasury in Berlin. England Changes the Whole Situation It was not without reason that at , this interview, when the Kaiser wrote i this message to the president, he said ] that the coming in of England changed i the whole situation and would make 1 the war a long one. The kaiser talked rather despondently about the war. 1 tried to cheer him up by saying the 1 German troops would soon enter Paris, 1 but he answered: The English change 1 the whole situation; an obstinate na- tion, they will keep up the war. It can- not end sOon.'
 It was the entry of England in the war in defense of the rights of small nations, in defense of the guaranteed neutrality of Belgium, which saved the world from the harsh dominion of the conquest-hungry Prussians and, there fore, saved as well the two Americas and their protecting doctrine of Pres ident Monroe.
 The document, which is dated August 10, 1914, supersedes the statement made by the German Chancellor von Beth mann -Hollweg in his speech before the Reichstag on August 4, 1914, in which he gave the then official account of the entrance into the war of the Gen. tral Empires. Because the text of VOn Bethmann-Hollweg's speech and the imperial letter to President Wilson will be studied and compared by all future historians of the war, I give below the chief part of the chancellor's version Of the facts that accompanied the Ger man declaration of war It will be noted that Von Bethmann-H Hollwea insisted that France began the war ir the sentence reading: There were bomb-throWing fliers, cavalry patrols invading companies in the ReichslanG ; (Alsace-Lorraine). Thereby France although the condition of war had moi :, yet been declared, had attacked oul territory But the emperor makes nc , mention of this fact, of supreme i'm. Portance if true, in his writing tc , President Wilson six days later. Vor [ Bethmann- -Hollweg's account is as fol. . lows:
 , Won 6ethmann- Holweg's Superseded
 Speech
 Gentlemen, a series of doc
 uments, composed in the rush O events, IS in your hands. Allow me f, place before you the facts which char . acterize our attitude.
 From the very beginning of tb,
 Austrian conflict we strove and worke, ! toward the end that this trouble remain confined to Austria Hungary and Ser
 bla- All cabinets, especially that 0 , fhsiand, take the same stand: onl-
 hussla declares that she must have word in the decision of this conflict a herewith the danger of European en
 engagements arises. As soon as th
 Ilr8t authentic reports of the miIitar
 preparations in Russia reached Us " F declared in a friendly but empbati
 manner in St. Petersburg that ro
 measures and military preparation
 Wouio force us also to prepare. an
 that mobilization is closely akin f war. '-- :
 Russla asserts in what is an appar . entiy friendly manner that she is nc
 nlopl1zlng against us. In the mean
 tune England tries to mediate betwee vienna and St. Petersburg, in whic ' she Is warmly supported by us Q July 2S, the Kaiser telegrapbed tb Car asking him to consider that Al,
 'ila Hungary has the right and that
 IS her duty to defend herself agains if 9erDlan lntrigues, which threaten [ .4 uhdermlne her existence. The Kaise
 called the attention of the Czar to the
 common monarchial interests with re e gard to the Serajevo outrage. an s asked nm personally to support him
 oruer to establish harmony betwee II Vienna and St. Petersburg.
 U At about the same hour in .vb;o
 a c iTa e the kaiser for his support and rt
 quested him to advise Vienna to I 0 moderate in it's demands. The kais,
 assumed the role of mediator. Hard1
 had ne begun his activity when Russ
 ilooliized It's entire fighting for, = against Austria Hungary. Austris IT, Hungary, however, had mobilized on a those army corps which were directe
 against Serbia; in the north there wel
 only two army corps, and these f. = from the Russian border.
 = The kaiser immediately called u
 attention of the czar to the fact tn; l this mobilization of his forces again V Austria Hungary made his position 9 mediator difficult or absolutely impo . -sible. In spite of this we continue s our mediatorial activities in Vienn