Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-22

central Europe, BeIln-BdBdau, ana All Tue
rest of It, was a nightmare Of the old
Holy Roman Empire. He insisted that
Germany's only proper course was to cul.
tivate friendship with England and develop
her sea.borne commerce
Step by step Lichnowsky goes through
the repeated efforts Of Earl Grey to pre-
serve the peace in July, 1914. II would
have been easy, he says, TO avert war,
even after the dispatch of the Austrian
ultimatum to Serbia Grey went through
the Serbian reply with him personally and
pointed out the conciliatory attitude Of
Belgrade Grey urged a committee to dis
cuss the two points at issue; but Berlin
would not hear of II. Little by little Lich.
nowsky himself realized the truth-the
Wnhelmstrasse was determined TO force
war. on July 20 Grey said to Lichnowsky,
IF war breaks out II will he the greatest
catastrophe the world has ever seem on
August 9 when Lichnowsky saw Asquith
for the last time, the prime minister "was
completely broken; tears ran down his
face"
Lichnowsky's memoir is assured an hon
orable place in the saddost tablets of this
planet. lie closes writing in August 1870
with very remarkable prophecy. 1t is
not surprising" he says, that the whole
civilized world outside Germany attributes
To us the sole guilt for the world war
Then he adds:
The principal war aim of our enemies,
the characterization Of Germany, viii he
achieved We cannot hope for an uncon-
dtional victory over Russians, English
French. Italians. Rumanians and Amerl-
cans The world will belong to the Anglo
Saxon. the Russian and the Japanese, aHd
the German will remain alone with Austria
and Hungary. The German appeared too
late and the world-war has destroyed the
last possibility of founding colonial cm-
pire
The program Of the great Rhodes who
saw the salvation Of mankind in British
expansion and British Imperialism VIII be
realized
And it is utterly significant that Lich.
nowsky ends by quoting the famous Nir'
gillian lines:
And thou O Roman, remember to rule
the peoples with thy power. These shall
be thy arts: to teach the arts Of peace, to be
merciful to subject peoples, ana TO crush
the naughty.
Those world.old words OF Virgl-"debel'
lare superbos"-never had nober applica-
ton than when leveled against Prussia.
The broadsde Of the former Krupp
director, Doctor Muehlon. which appeared
recently in the Bcrliner Tageblatt, is also
more damaging to the Prussian cause than
any number of howitzers. In the first
place. the ex-director tells (by quoting no
less person than Herr Krupp Won Bohlem
that the Kaiser was determined to have
war. The Emperor was anxious that no
Ia, LOT .,,t
this point. "The Kaiser's repeated insist
ence that this time nobody would be able
TO accuse him Of indecision had, he LKruppl
said. been almost comic in its effect"
But, far more important, Doctor Muehlqn
insists that there is no hope for Germany
while she is under the spurs of her present
masters. He says:
/ have abandoned all hope as regards
the present directors Of Germany. The
German people will not be able to repair
the grievuus crimes committed against its
own present and future, and against that
of Europe and the whole human race, until
it is represented by different men with
different mentality To tell the truth,
it is mere justice that its reputation
throughout the whole world is as bad as
IT is. The triumph Of its methods would
constitute defeat for the ideas and the
supreme hopes of mankind.
And what answer have William the
Damned and his accomplices to all this?
They say GirsD that Lichuowsky is a sim
pleton who was duped by Grey and the
hypocritcal English, and CseconO that the
former Krupp director is suffering from
acute nervous breakdown!
Doctor Muehou now lives in Switzerland
whittier Truth has emigrated from Ger
many; and Prince LiChnowsky is said to
be anxious to take up a residence there,
also.