The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-03

to dominate the Straits nor to throt- tie the Serbs. M. Sazonoff was say ing to us-'Lachez PAntrtche ct nous lacherone les Francats," and M. am- bon (French Ambassador in Berlin), said to Herr von Jagow-'EVous n'avez pas besoin~ de sutEre fAutriche partout."
 We needed neither alliances nor wars, but merely treaties which would protect us and others. and which would guarantee us an economic de- velopment for which there had been no precedent in history. And if Rus sia had been relieved of trouble in the west, she would have been able to turn again to the east, and then the Anglo Russian antagonism would have arisen automatically without our interference-and the Russo-Japanese antagonism no less than the Anglo Russian.
 We could also have approached the question of limitation of armaments, and should have had no further need tc bother about the confusion of Aus tria. Austria-Hungary would then become the vassal of the German Elm pire-without an alliance, and, above all, without sentimental services on our part, leading ultimately to war for the liberation of Poland and the destruction of Serbia, although Ger man interests demanded exactly the contrary.
 I had to support in London a policy which knew to be fallacious. I was paid out for it, for it was sin against the Holy Ghost!
 On my arrival in Berlin I saw at once that was to be made the scape- goat for the catastrophe of which our Government had made itself guilty, in oposition to my adivce and my warnings.
 The report was consistently circu- lated by official quarters that I had let myself be deceived by Sir Edward Grey, because if had not wanted war Russia would not have mobilized. Count Pourtales, whose reports could be relied upon, was to be spared, if only because of his family connections He was said to have behaved 'splen- didly,' and he was enthusiastically praised, while I was all the more sharply blamed.
 What has Russia got to do with Serbia ?" this statesman said to me, after eight years of official activity in Petersburg. It was made out that the whole business was a perfdous British trick which I had not under stood. In the Foreign office I was told that in 1916 it would in any case have come to war. But then Russia would have been ready" and so it was better now.
 Summing Up Against Germany. As it appears from all official pub ications, without the facts being controverted by our own White Book which owing to it's overly and gaps l constitutes a grave self-accusation: 1. We encouraged Count Berchtold to attack Serbia, although no Ger man interest was involved, and the danger of a world-war must have been ] known to us-whether we knew the text of the ultimatum is a. question o1 complete indifference;
 2. In the days between July 2S and July 30, 1914, when M. Sazonoff en- phatical1y declared that Russia could I not tolerate an attack on Serbia, we rejected the British proposals of med iation, although Serbia, under Rus sian and British pressure, had ac. cepted almost the whole ultimatum and although an agreement about the two points in question could easily have been reached. and Count Berch. told was even ready to satisfy himself | with the Serbian reply;
 3. On July 30, when Count Berch. told wanted to give way, we, without Austria having been attacked, replied to Russia's mobilization by sending an ultimatum to Petersburg, and or