se his own words:

Necessity knows no law. Our troops have occupied Luxemburg,
and have possibly already entered on Belgian soil. _That is
a breach of international law.... We were forced to ignore
the rightful protests of the Governments of Luxemburg and
Belgium, and the injustice--I speak openly--the injustice we
thereby commit, we will try to make good as soon as our
military aims have been attained._ Anybody who is threatened
as we are threatened and is fighting for his highest
possessions can have only one thought--how he is to hack his
way through.

Thank God, their military aims have not yet been attained, and from
present appearances are not likely to be, but, as Mr. Beck believes,
Germany will still be held by the judgment of mankind to make good the
damage done.

In reviewing the diplomatic correspondence published by Germany that
preceded the outbreak of the war, Mr. Beck lays great stress, and we
think justly, upon the obvious suppression of evidence by Germany, in
omitting substantially all the important correspondence on vital
points that passed between Germany and Austria, and the suppression of
important evidence in judicial proceedings always carries irresistible
weight against the party guilty of it. While England and France and
Russia were pressing Germany to influence and control Austria in the
interests of peace, not a word is disclosed of what, if anything, the
German Foreign Office said to Austria toward that end. To quote Mr.
Beck's own words:

Among the twenty-seven communications appended to the German
_White Paper_, it is most significant that not a single
communication is given of the many which passed from the
Foreign Office of Berlin to that of Vienna, and only two
which passed from the German Ambassador in Vienna to the
German Chancellor, and the purpose of this suppression is
even more clearly indicated by the complete failure of
Austria to submit any of its diplomatic records to the
scrutiny of a candid world.

Notwithstanding the disavowal given by the German Ambassador at
Petrograd to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the German
Government had no knowledge of the text of the Austrian note before
it was handed in, and did not exercise any influence on its contents,
Mr. Beck establishes clearly by the admissions of the German Foreign
Office itself that it was consulted by Au