TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-01-15
FOR AMERICANS To READ.
HISTORY AND FACTS PUT GUILT OF THE WAR
UP TO The ENTENTE-P0WERS.

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between Prussia and Austrial
clause was inserted upon the de
mand OF Napoleon Ill which lief
open for the southern German states
the conclusion OF q separate con
federation. The leading but I'm
avowed idea was then to found
new Rhine bund."
"As TO the free existence OF small
nations, DR.. HamIaann said:
This idea, too, has found a very
strange illustration during the war
Only a few weeks have elapsed since
a leading English minister termed
the misfortune OF the Rumanians
plainly a gross blunder. BY this
'blunder q whole nation has been
pushed into misery. Rumania has
been dragged into q great var By
all sorts OF dark Vaccinations.
"And then look at Greece. There
the entente has occupied the ports
railroads, cable and postal stations
and whole districts Of the country,
all against the law of nations. There
the entente has simply taken what
It needed and by blockade and
hunger has forced the Greeks 70
surrender those things which the
entente was unable to take"
What about the reproach that
Germany In the decisive week OF
July u914) declined the British
proposal Of q conference and thus
made war unavoidable?"
"'The proposal for a conference
was made July 20 by Grey. The
meaning Of 1t was that the delegates
of France, Italy and Germany should
meet with Grey In conference and
try to find a way out OF a difficult
situation. The first condition max.
ing the holding OF such a conference
possible should have been that the
Russian cabinet declare its consent
but 1t answered July n In an
evaslve manner and referred to con.
versations with the Austro hungarian
ambassador In st. Petersburg tPe-
trograd1, as having begun under the
most favorable auspices.
'The following day Grey agreed
to the German PROPOSAL that a direct
understanding between Vienna and
st. Petersburg would result in
quicker and better action. Thus
Grey on July " teiegraphed to Co
schen british ambassador at Ber-
linz;
But as long as there is a
prospect OF a direct exchange OF
views between Austria and Russia /
should suspend every other sug-
gestiUa. as | entirely agree that 1t
Is the most preferable method OF
ALI.
4 can only advise every ID to
read the English blue book, II he
wants TO be informed about these
matters. But TO my mind it seems
to be altogether wrong to look for
the real causes Of the war In the
during the last weeks Of
July, 1914. Then, perhaps, the last
impulse for war was given, but the
real cause must be found a con-
siderable time before.
since the Anglo French treaty
OF 1904 d complete literature had
sprung up In France, In which
openly and loudly the conquest Of
Alsace.Lorraime was discussed and
everything said In order 10 suggest
to the French the idea Of Germany's
inferiority. The entente's note points
that at the last peace conference
Germany treated the proposition 10
disarm with distrust. But Germany
knew then pertInentIy that the pro-
position was mainly directed against
her existence.
Russia after the economic regu-
that followed the war with
Japan had worked with increasing
zeal for the preparedness OF her
army. When Germany employed the
Of her youth for military
service France, in order to surpass
Us, introduced a three years service,
thus sappIng her capital Of vital ma
tional forces. Six months before
tbs beginning of the war the French
specialists published 6peSly
discussions regarding the reason for
billions and billions Of French
streaming into Russia and
the conditions under which France
had loaned this money. France had
asked in return for her loans the
construction Of strateplcsi railroads
IN Russia.
SIN this literature it was explained,
with al the circumstances that not
Warsaw but Grodno and Koyno
would be the base for Russian de.
ployment because from there the
Prussian army corps in KoenigsbeFg
and Allenstein could most quickly
be rolled up and thus the road to
Berlin coald be opened.
In August 1914. the attempt was
made at least to make things &c
way. And today they want to
persuade the nations Of the world
that Germany prepared herself, not
for protection against an aggressive
coalition but in order to anninilate
France.
The same people who promised tc
Russia the conquest and possession
Of Constantinople, are to assert that
Germany has aggressive intentions
OF course the conquest OF Constants
which was announced BY Ire.
poft 1.-THE Russian premier) in tbs
Duna, is passed in silence in ths
entente note, just as they, in a dis
cussion OF diplomatic events in Jaly
1914 elegantly slide over the deei-
siYe event = that brusque intefyen-
tion in all attempts at mediation By
the Russian mobilization, which wal
even repeatedly dissuaded by The
English ambassador at ST. Peters
"Do you think that under these
circumstances the moral indigaa.