Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-15
10N JACO|W|| HAS
MADE ANSWER
TO LICHN0WSKY
ractcally Admits That
Germany Could Have
Evaded War.

49, London, April 15.-German papers
4 Isl h&oNtainipg the text of the observa-
tnneeAaions which the former German for
IosWN,ign secretary, Herr Won !agow.
,.ssNNSnade In reply to the memorandum of
puH1A4o nee Lichnowsky, wherein the for
asaMtssner German ambassador to London
8AAAlNas,lameds Germany for causing the
s%@sssvotld war, have now reached Eng
lana Herr Won Jagow was presumably
fioNSaput forward to counteract the effect
spENSswhich the publication Of. Lichnows-
.Asky's revelations in the Vorwarts and
preeG;ernahy. but in the course OF his
lis.thFee-eolumn article in the Nord-
Wfldentsche A~llgemeine .Zeitung he con-
a~GgAaconfrnns what is most material IN
~ He applies such phrases as IAN un-
gsheard Of assertion" "a mass of mac
ss~ncuFncies ard perversions." to Lich-
thlsnowsky's memorandum, but he does
SsSScharges with any new evidence
tnosgnerely referring his readers to for
nnane publications of the German gov
l SACRAMENT
nnstha eagerness with which he fastens
aason a few trifling errors in the memo
Randunl serves to increase the slgnl-
JSAicance of his admissions.
z Is fe OeaTS out Ine ASSERTION LudC III
Axs1s13 England was prepared to enter
N Unto friendly agreements with Ger
/ GNAmany. She was ready to meet us
"a Bagdad railway agreement was al
completed when rma
drew the sword. Negotiations about
{ NHsthe future of the African colonie of
I APortugal in certain contingencies had
HMbeen resumed. and the German Tor
sfeign secretary looked forward to fur-
Il anssther agreements in the far east and
4 .Nelsewhere. H.
b He refuses to adopt the German
spview that England laid all the mines
tESEwhich caused the war" On the con-
hEtrary. he bears witness with former
t8Ambassador Lichnowsky to Sir Ed
dSaward Grey's love of peace and his
iteserieus wish to reach an agreement
I W4with u.s." He says that 1T is true that
a&Sir Edward could have prevented
rdSSwar, but he is careful not to indicate
Chow. Presumably he means he could
a$havc dom it by following Germany's
ST example and treating England's en-
\ c$ gagements as scraps of paper"
/ PIN He agrees that the war was not
4 NJ popular with the British people. and
- that Belgium had to serve as a battle
field. Germany, on the other hand,
had to maintain her prestige. 1t had
x been damaged by her political defeat
in Morocco. A fresh diminution of it
& would have been. he remarks. 'intol-
/ erable for our position in Europe and
in the world"
n h DVAlEcS AHC NoulsC1A'
In one point of fact he c%orrects
Prince L~ichnowsky. He denies that
he himself visited Vienna at any
time between the spring Of 1913 and
the outbreak of the war. He con-
firms. as far as he remembers. all the
expressions attributed to him by
1ichnov:sky.
His only reference to the Potsdam
asserted. the Teuton leaders made
the final decision for war; is not a
/ denial tina, the meeting took place;
I but a single sentence. "On July 5 l
( was absent from Berlin.
In regard to Lichnowskys main
charges. Her Won Jagow talks of
l curacies and perversions," but he
! does ses 9s'9S forw ar any fresh ar. ar
/ merely refers TO the publications of
Y the German government concerning
the conversations which took place in
: June, 1914. between the kaiser and
I Arehduke Francis Ferdinand. Herr
! o Jagow says:
AT K~onopischt no plan was laid
4 down (festgelegD for an active policy
I against. Serbia Archduke Francis
Ferdinand was not at all an advocate
; OF q policy leading to war, although
] he was often reckoned as such. Dur
s Ing the London conference he advised
moderation and avoidance Of war"
Herr Won Jagow here avoids the is
sue, sxai6edshy Lichnowsky, who did
4 not say that a definite scheme was ar
( ranseds at konopischt, but that the
indication was, not that Archduke
Fhancis Ferdinand was in favor of
war. but that his death was a posi-
4 tive relief to the advocates of war.
I'm the course of his statement Herr
Q Jagow. who remained foreign
secretary until late in 1916, says:
When I was appointed state sec,
rotary in January. 1918, it seemed tc
me that a German-English rap.
prochement was desirable and ar
understanding upon those point.
aemeumes even crossed, and this !.
deemed feasible. At least. it was my
intention to work on this"
Admits England Was Conciliatory.
With regard to the Bagdad ques.
ton Herr Won Jagow says:
IF England insisted upon exclud
fng us from Mesopotamia, it appear
I'd to me that a conflict would b.
avoided with difficulty. We were me
ina conciliatorv manner by the Eng.
lish government. and an agreemen
had almost been reached just previ
to the outbreak of the worle
He meets Lichnowsky's assertio,
that Germany drove Russia Unto tn.
arms Of France and England by on,
Oriental and Balkan volicy,". by tn,
cpntention that the Pan slavisn
which governed Russian politics wa!
Upon the London conference Oh
Algeciras he says: I'VE no more dc
sired war on Albania's account tina,
& did Sir Edward Grey. That is why
AiEeciras, we consented to the con
ference. The merit of a conciliator
attitude at the conference must no
~ denied to Sir Edward Grey, but
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