Excerpt: ...every line of it." (Off. Dip. Doc., p. 330.) (9) Count Bernstorff, German Ambassador at Washington, published an article in The Independent, New York, September 7, 1914. In this article he answered, officially, several questions. The first question was: Did Germany approve in advance the Austrian ultimatum to Servia? The answer was: "Yes. Germany's reasons for doing so are the following, &c." (10) The German Government has itself acknowledged that it was consulted by Austria in regard to the attitude to be taken ...
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Excerpt: ...every line of it." (Off. Dip. Doc., p. 330.) (9) Count Bernstorff, German Ambassador at Washington, published an article in The Independent, New York, September 7, 1914. In this article he answered, officially, several questions. The first question was: Did Germany approve in advance the Austrian ultimatum to Servia? The answer was: "Yes. Germany's reasons for doing so are the following, &c." (10) The German Government has itself acknowledged that it was consulted by Austria in regard to the attitude to be taken toward Servia, and the possibility of ensuing war if Russia intervened to protect the life of her little sister state. Germany accepted the responsibility and pledged support. "With all our heart we were able to agree with our ally's estimate of the situation, and assure him that any action considered necessary to end the movement directed against the conservation of the monarchy would meet with our approval." (German Official White Book, p. 4; Off. Dip. Doc., p. 551.) This is a carte blanche of a kind which no great government could possibly give to another without a definite understanding of what it involved. Here the summary of the evidence that Austria was not playing "a lone hand" ends-at least until further confidential documents and information about secret meetings are dug up. Meantime the Imperial German Government maintains its plea of "not guilty." It still denies all previous knowledge of, and all part in, the nefarious Austrian ultimatum to Servia which precipitated the world war. The denial is both impudent and mendacious. "Credat Judaeus Apella!" III THE RUSSIAN MOBILIZATION It has been loudly asserted and persistently maintained by the Potsdam gang that the cause of this abominable war was the mobilization of Russia in preparation to maintain the sovereignty of her little sister state Servia if necessary. "Germany," it is said, "earnestly desired, from the purest of motives, to 'localize the conflict'"-which means in...
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Very Good. No Jacket. 12 vo; 1.5 Pouinds. 2nd printing; navy c; lite tanning of epprs; President Wilson's ambassador to the Netherlands from 1913, Van Dyke was a first-hand witness to the outbreak of World War I, its progress an d was a key player in the President's diplomatic efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict; 247 clean, unmarked pages.
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Very Good. First edition. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Contemporary owner's name on front fly, spine cocked, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. Van Dyke was an Ambassador to the Netherlands and helped President Wilson to keep us out of World War I. The chapters found in this book are "Fair-Weather and Storm Signs, Apologue, The Werewolf at Large, German Mendax, A Dialogue on Peace Between a Householder and a Burglar, Stand Fast, Ye Free! , and Pax Humana."
