The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-11

l FOWL in accordance with the evidence of the ambassador Princc IichnOw- | sky) has now declared to be false. l IL is. however. by this false view that | the whole policy of the German em- | pire has been drcCtcd-frOm the dec laration of unrestricted submarine warfare, winch brought us war with | America, down to those chancellor speeches which say that Belgium must again become Englands area of mili- tary concentration. If all the parties belief in England's guilt is a fiction, why did they feed this belief. and why did they pursue policy which was based upon it?" And the paper con tinues: The German people cannot be satisfied with the methods of gov erning exercised during the war. | The German people can only endure after the war as a peace-loving nation that governs itself"
 Germany's Place in the Sun
 But to the American reader. the most important part of Prince Lich, nowsky's exposure is not his conclu- sion that Germany forced a declara- tion of war. We have long believed that Our German sympathizers have largely admitted it. But they have pleaded that the Kaiser declared war only because war was inevitable; that Germany was denied her place in the sun: that a conspiracy of France Russia and Great Britain prevented 1 her from obtaining colonies and ex- l tending her trade; and that, COnse- quently, Germany had either to take Great Britain's trade enmity. Many of us have been persuaded that these eX- cuses are true excuses: that the Bri- tish policy compelled Germany's ap peal to the sword, and that Britain allies are merely pulling Britain's chestnuts out of the fire" as the Ger man propagandists are continually charging.
 It has been pleaded that the policy of France and England in Morroco was anti-German. Prince LiChnowsky writes Our obscure policy in Nor. occo had repeatedly caused distrust of our peaceful intention, or. at least, had raised doubts as to whether We knew what we wanted or whether our intention was to keep Europe in state of suspense, and, on occasion, to humiliate the French An Austrain colleague, who was a long time in Paris. said to me The French had begun to forget Ia revanche" Uheir desire to avenge AlsaCe-Lorraine). You have regularly reminded them of 1t by tramping on their toes After we had declined Delcasse's the French mini ster's) offer to come to an agreement TtSdIuIls NlDIptto anu tlitI oolIiilhis declared that we had no political in terest there, we suddenly discovered in Abdul Aziz a second Kruger To him. also. as to the mighty Boers, | We promised the protection nt the mighty German empire. and With the same result. Both manifestations con cluded, as they were bound to con Clude. with a reaction, if we were not prepared to start a world war. Our attitude furthercd the Russian Japanese and the RussanBr al dances In the face of the German peril all other considerations faded into the background The possibility of another war between France and Germany had been evident, and such a war could not leave out England or Russia, as in 1870. Before Del casse's fall. and before the Algeciras conference. we could have obtained harbors and bases on the west coast
 
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 In other words. according to Ger many's ambassador, it was Germany's threat of war that united the Euro pean nations against her in Africa It was not their union that led to the German threat.
 EngIand's Attempts at Friendship
 Nevertheless, Lichnowsky goes on to say, London "quited down on the Moroccan affair."" The Haldan mis- sion had gone to Berlin to come to an understanding with Germany, and that mission failed, Lichnowsky confesses, because we demanded a promise of neutrality from Great Britain in the event of European war. instead of being satisfied with treaty which