New-York tribune., 1918-07-03
DR.. Muehlon-s Revelations

The most astonishing thing about DR..
Muehlon's revelations published in Mon
days issue Of The Tribune is that thew
should come from a twentieth century
German. Their tone is eighteenth or
early nineteenth century. They show the
detachment. the cosmopolitanism, the
critical poise Of German ntellectualisn
in the days of Goethe
DIR. Muehlon is not victim of the new
German chauvinism. The modern fu,.or
Ieatton1cats doesn't impress him. Asaman
OF science and of liberal intellectual ten
dencies he has only disdain for the brutal
policies IN pursuance of which modern
German militarism and industrialism
have set out to conquer the world.
His high position in the Krupp works
brought him into close contact with tho
influences which were planning to set up
German Mitteleuropa, Mittelasien and
Mittelafrika. He didn't react to these
ambitions in the modern German way.
Many OF his countrymen will say that he
IS mad. But that only means that he
was not an ordinary German.
DR.. Muehlon writes of the occurrences
of June November, 1914, as if he were
merely a clear minded. disinterested
witness. He proclaims the truth as he
saw 1T and as history will establish it.
The great war was made in Germany.
Her military autocracy had been plan
ming a world war for years. It was only
question when "the day" would come.
The Serajevo assassination offered a
pretext for firing the powder train. AS
DR.. Muehlon shows, the Kaiser gave
Austria-Hungary free hand in dealing
with Serbia. And when Vienna hest
tated on the brink of war and began to
draw back, Germany forestalled a diplo-
matte settlement by forcing war on
Russia.
This unmodern German savant saws:
"Whoever had not seen it before can
see in the Blue Book (the British Blue
Book of September, 1910 that Germany
started the war because she not only an
swered the mobilization of Russia with
her own mobilization, but also sent a
short-term ultimatum for Russia's de-
mobilization and declared war without
delay. Had Germany's mobilization not
meant immediate war, had Germany given
time for consideration, with spark of
good will, it would have been possible to
arrange everything by peaceful means.
1t was not the tension between
Russia and Austria that could not be
bridged, but that between Germany and
Russia, which was entirely independent
OF the interests Of Austria Hungary. 1t
was this that brought about war"
responsibility for bringing on the war.
All the proofs are against her. The
Kaiser and his advisers know the truth
as we'll as DR.. Muehlon does. But the
latter has never stepped his soul in Prus-
sian intolerance and hypocrisy.
Prussian hypocrisy, brutality and
greed are loathsome to this clear-minded,
old-fashioned German. Indignation has
sharpened his pen. No on-German has
drawn bitterer indictment of the Junk
erism of to-day than he has. KNOWING
the character of the men who rule the
empire, he says:
"1f the Germans should win the dom-
nation Of Europe a general fight Of all
Europeans will begin. The Germans
themselves would not bear each other and
would wrangle. The most remote corners
of Europe would become the most desir-
able places of refuge. The centres of
spiritual life would be entirely moved
away. And if there were to be no spot
in Europe where the Germans would not
dominate, general migration of people
would take place to the countries across
the sea-"
The Germans have ceased to be Eu-
LII