Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-14
Prince Lchnosy and Herr Muehon Have Given the Lie to Kaisers Plea That he Was Attacked and Acted in Self
 Defense; the Mask Off the Hun at Last; Every Move Carefully Planned Things Every American Should Know

lUdl WOulQ nave uO SldAt III any such policy.
 Subsequently I learned that at the decisive conversation at POtsdam on July the inquiry addressed to us by Vienna found absolute assent among all the personages in authority; indeed they added that there would be no harm if a war with Russia were to re- suit So, at any rate, it is stated in the Austrian protocol which Count Mensdorf, Austrian ambassador, re- ceived in London. Soon afterward Herr Won Jagow was in Vienna to dis cuss everything with Count Berchtold. Austrian foreign minister
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 At first I pressed for as concilia- tory an answer as possible on the part of Serbia, since the attitude of the Russian government left no fur ther doubt of the seriousness of the situation.
 "The Serbian reply was in accord ance with British efforts; M. Pash- itch had actually accepted everything except two points, about which he de clared his readiness to negotiate. If Russia and England had wanted war. in order to fall upon us, a hint to Bel grade would have been sufficient and the unheard-of (Austrian) note would have remained unanswered.
 Sir Edward Grey's Proposal
 "Sir Edward Grey went through the Serbian reply with me, and pointed to the conciliatory attitude of the gov ernment at Belgrade. We then dis cussed his mediation proposal, which was to arrange an interpretation of the two points acceptable to both par ties. M Cambon (French ambassador in London), the Marquis Imperiali Qtalian ambassador in London) and I should have met under Sir Edward Greyss presidency and it would have been easy to find an acceptable form for the disputed points, which in the main concerned the participation of Austrian officials in the investigation at Belgrade.
 "Given good will. everything could have been settled in one or two sit tings. and the mere acceptance of the British proposal would have relieved the tension and would have further i'm proved our relations to England. ] urgently recommended the proposal, saying that otherwise world war was imminent, in which We had everything to lose and nothing to gain. In vain! was told that it was against the dig nity of Austria, and that we did not want 10 interfere in the Serbian busi- ness, but left it to our ally. I was told to work for "localization of the con flict"
 "Of course it would only have need e1 a hint from Berlin to make Count BerchtoId satisfy himself with dip lomatic success and put up with the Serbian reply. But this hint was not qiven. On the contrary, we pressed for war. What a fine success it would have been.
 After our refusal Sir Edward asked us to come forward with a proposal of our own. We insisted upon war I could get no other answer (from Berlin) than that it was an enormous concession on the part of Austria to contemplate no annexation of terri tory
 "ThereupOn Sir Edward justly point ed out that even without anneXations of territory a country can be huml- lated and subjected, and that Russia would regard this as a humiliation which she would not stand.
 "The impression became ever strong CT that we desired war in all circum- stances. Otherwise our attitude in question which, after all, did not d. rectly concern us was unintelhgiDle.