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between Austria and Servia." He elegantly qualified the attitude thus
adopted as "localizing the conflict."

Is there a single member among those who signed the document of
Intellectuals who has been able to believe--have you been able to
believe, Mr. Brentano, with your quick and perspicacious mind?--that
this reply from Berlin did not imply war as a fatal consequence; for any
nation accepting it was certain to be treated in future, by Germany, as
the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy treated Servia? How, then, knowing the
initial pretext of the war, are you able to realize that there was no
other relation between this cause and the effect produced than the will
of those who made use of it to provoke either a dishonoring humiliation
for the countries accepting such a situation, or a general
conflagration? How, then, do you, and the signatories of your appeal,
dare to state: "It is not true that Germany provoked the war"? You dare
to speak of proofs taken from authentic documents. Those published by
Great Britain, Russia, and Belgium are known. All agree; and they give
clear proof that the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum was pronounced with full
complicity of the Berlin Chancellery. They prove, moreover, that the
German Ambassador at Petrograd, fearing a withdrawal on the part of
Hungary, precipitated events while your Emperor kept himself out of the
way. Meanwhile, your General Staff had, in underhanded manner, mobilized
a portion of its troops, by individual call, while in France we waited,
unable to imagine that the German Government had resolved to engage in
European war without motives. In the pocketbooks of your reservists have
been found forms calling them to the army long before the end of July.
Our friend and colleague, Courcelle-Seneuil, has seen the military book
of a German living in Switzerland, at Bex, containing this call.

*Bismarckian Loyalty.*

Correspondence of official nature has been stopped at the Cape, which
should have reached in full time officers of the German Navy, warning
them to prepare for mid-July. Such advance taken by your troops has
rendered the task the more difficult for ours. We were very simple, for
we believed in the affirmations of your statesmen. You state that these
are loyal war methods; so be it. That belongs to the diplomatic rules of
loyalty bequeathed by Bismarck to his successors. But to attempt to
carry on this falsehood, you have no longer the excuse of its utility.
It is clea