The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-13
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CAUSE Of WAR
Ambitions of Foreign Knaves
and DeceitfuI Diplomacy
Brought on Conflict.
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Nouthucu lTOu
He would decide later-to the great
satisfaction of Prince Iichnowsky.
tho German ambassador and Count
Menssdorf, the Austro-Hungarian-
Grey was willing enough to go to
war. But 1t was not for the naughty
British empire to recognize cause
for federation" He knew the plans
\ of the Germans. Belgium would be
Invaded. That would be his own
casus belli.
( To have the world know that ever
since the Boer war. Great Britain
was the diplomatic slave of Russia
did not appeal to the British govern
ment That delectable bit of informa-
ton had to be WITHHELD from a world
public that had acquired the habit Of
/ prostrating itself every time John
Bull betrayed his displeasure.
So when the entente-promoted
Kerensky revolution was swept aside
by the red wave of Russian radical
, ism, now known as Bolshevism, and
I when there was imminent danger that
tho records Of the Petrograd foreign
once would be exposed to public
view. the British government in
structed it's ambassador at Petrograd,
Sir George Buchanan to buy what he
could of the secret archives Of the
Sir George bought to the tune OF
SOC, 900 pounds sterling. But he did
! not buy all there was. He had barely
arrived in London. when the Bolshe-
Wiki published a few of the secret
treaties involving Great Britain, of
! which the Italo-enrente secret treaty,
disposing OF much of Austria Hun
gary and the Balkan, is a fair ex-
ample. or course, that could not be
helped.
SECRET TREATIES Barred.
Secret treaties and confidential in
structions to ambassadors, ministers.
military, naval, and financial at
taches, not to mention the 'provoca-
ting agent" do not exist in mere
single copies. If transmitted tele-
graphically, the original draft has to
be converted into code, and at the
receiving point several copies of the
message are made in decodiation- The
/ addressee has to have at least one,
and the diplomatic courier, on his
next trip to his foreign office, takes
with him, in his especially-privilege
mail pouch, at least three other
copies for notification and record.
What the British government
wanted to hide is written broadly
into the documents that were to be
Out. Oh Inc way.
For two decades, the mighty British
empire had been a mere pawn in the
desperate game played by Russia.
During the Boer war, the Russian
government was ready to put an end
to British hegemony. France, still
smarting under the impression left
by the Fashoda affair, was willing to
assist Russia, but Germany could not
ssee It that way.
While Petrosrad and Paris were
plotting how TO put crimp into Brit
ish Imperialism. Emperor William
was losing sleep working out mill
tary plans for his grandmother's gen.
eral STAFF. Though a scant four years
before, that odd son of the Hohenzol-
Terms had sent a most foolish telegram
to President Paul Kruger, he was no
longer in sympathy with the Beers.
The result was that Great Britain
was able in the end to encompass his
own ruin and that of the country
over which Ne presided by virtue of
divine right" Providence watches
we'll over some fools. but it does not
do 1t all the time, as Lincoln might
nave expressed the case.
DICTATED TO GREY.
Sazonoff. the Russian minister for
foreign affairs, desperate. cutthroat
Panslav, and melagomaniac that he
was, proved too much for Sir Ed
ward in the end. Little by little,
Sazonoff had discovered" Grey.
Again and again Sazonoff dictated to
Grey and just as often did the British
government eat humble pie.
Iswolsky wanted to make Constanti-
nople the capital of the holy Mus