Evening star., 1918-03-28

PRINCE LICHNOWSkY.
LONDON. March oS-The personal
memorandum of Prince Lichnowsky, re-
vealing the inner workings of German
diplomacy, which has caused much
feeling in Germany against the former
ambassador to Great Britain. leaked
out last summer through the German
general staff after the fall of Chan
Gellor Won Holiweg. This statement is
rs4ade by the socialist Vorwaerts of
Berlin and is published by the Times.
Which also reprints from the Vorwaerts
TIE most important points of the MEM
srandum- In an editorial on the dis
closures of the prince the Times says;
s-esBy a coincidence as strange as it
Is opportune, passages in the memo
rsndum, in which the former German
AMBASSADOR fixes the guilt for the war
apon his own government, reach US
Is the tiercest and bloodiest conf1lct
of the long struggle is at its height
: Al the moment when mankind is hlled
With horror and anguish at the car
mage on the great battlefield all eyes
vii turn to his account of the policy
Ehieh brought this dread visitation
upon the world.
Places Blame IOf war.
+ E-He has not shadow of a doubt
shout the responsibility for the war
without hesitation he fastens it upon
Germany. The German militarists were
fnexorable. They would not su1er
count Berchtold to give way. When
Ne fiinched from plunging Europe into
war they forced his hand
They delivered an ultimatum to
Hussit, and the next day declared war
,iopn her, although the Russian en-
usror had pledged his word that while
TIE negotiations continued not a man
should march
~ we deliberately destroyed the pos
sfDiIity of a peaceful settlement is the
farmer ambassadors considered 1udg-
rfent He cannot feel surprised thar
the whole civilized world outside Ger
many attributes to US sole guilt for
tffe world war; The whole story
Thich he records corroborates this
Judgment and cannot be reconciled
With any other.
sasThe first hint of coming trouble
which reached him seemed to have
hfen Won Bethmann Hollweg's 8 refusal to
share his optimism when ne visiteo
WilhelmstraSse early in July. 1914.
The chancellor and the undersecretary
for foreign affairs complained of Rus
sian armament and the latter declared
that Russia was everywhere in Ger
Ytfauy's way, At the same time he
+ lssrned that won Tchirsky. the German
AMBASSADOR at Vienna, had been re-
h8ked because he had counseled me-
dation toward Serbia But these were
n<ere straws showing the direction of
t& current.
EResult of Potsdam Conference.
Iii was not until later that he heard
1.-the decisive conversation at Potsdam
t.2aa5 and of the absolute assent
vksS6-all personages in authority
ter gave to Austria's inquiry that he
Hnew that Gen. Won Moltke, then chief
II the general staff. was pressing for
yar' or that he was informed of the
statement in the protocol OF the Pots-
I'm meeting sent to Count MensoorI
that these .personages' had agreed
ere would be no harm If war with
Hnssia were to result
EHefr Won Jagow met his warnings
akout.tne probable effects of the Pots
q I'm policy upon British opinion by as
airing him Russia was not ready and
dermany must simply risk it, This
hkiief as to Russian unreadiness caused
u to Stimulate Count Berchtold to the
nfeatest possible energy
k.Meanwhile the attitude of England
bs absolutely pacific and the English
pfess protested against the political ex-
r1oitation of the Sarajevo murders. but
IL sternly reproved the crime. 1t at
kce understood that the Hnprecedent-
q ultimatum which under stimulation
ftom Berlin Count Berchtold had
launched at Serbia meant war. Still
Hr Edward Grey, as he then was, did
1bt despair and the former German am
&assador bears the strongest testimony
u the sincerity of his unwearying ef-
1brts to avert this war which the Ger
Ieans -calumniously assert he provoked
Easy to Find Solution.
S-rhs prince declares that. it would
Nave been easy to find an acceptable
blution' for the two relatively small
| dbints left in dispute between Vienna
add Belgrade, and that given good Will
/ eferything could have been settled In
4o&e OF two sittings' of the body pro-
pbsed by Sir Edward.
ga hint from Berlin would have been
keoough to make Count Berchtold less
satisfied with diplomatic success and
70 cause his acquiescence in the Serb
i'm reply. What happened?
Tlis hint was not given, on the
centrary we pressed for war Sir Ed
ward ,besought Germany to make a
pfopoSal of her own; we insisted upon
war The Russian foreign minister
made urgent appeals and definite decla-
r&tions and later the Russian emperor
aent positively humble kilograms in
vain. Berlin went on insisting that
&rh h,zsx he