at office and its ambassadors in St. Petersburg, Paris,
and London, are given _in extenso_, but 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_. While the Kaiser has favored the world with his messages
to the Czar and King George, he has wholly failed to give us any
message that he sent in those critical days to the Austrian Emperor or
the King of Italy. We shall have occasion to refer hereafter to the
frequent failure to produce documents, the existence of which is
admitted by the exhibits which Germany appended to its _White Paper_.

This cannot be an accident. The German Foreign Office has seen fit to
throw the veil of secrecy over the text of its communications to
Vienna, although professing to give the purport of a few of them. 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. Until Germany and Austria are willing
to put the most important documents in their possession in evidence,
they must not be surprised that the World, remembering Bismarck's
garbling of the Ems dispatch, which precipitated the Franco-Prussian
War, will be incredulous as to the sincerity of their pacific
protestations.

ADDENDUM

The Austrian _Red Book_, published more than six months
after the declaration of war, simply emphasizes the policy
of suppression of vital documents, which we have already
discussed. Of its 69 documentary exhibits, _there is not one
which passed directly between the Cabinets of Berlin and
Vienna_. The text of the communications, in which Germany
claims to have exercised a mediatory and conciliatory
influence with its ally, is still withheld. _Not a single
document is produced which was sent between July the 6th and
July the 21st_, the period when the great _coup_ was
secretly planned by Berlin and Vienna.

In the _Red Book_ we find eight communications from Count
Berchtold to the Austrian Ambassador at Berlin and four
replies from that official, but not a letter or telegram
passing between Berchtold and von Bethmann-Hollweg or
between the German and Austrian Ka