the emissary of a little nation which had
continually been inciting the Irish to revolt? Would it have issued a
milder ultimatum than Austria's? But of all this you say not a word in
your communication, but instead persist on seeing in the situation into
which Servia and Russia have brought Austria, only the necessity of an
oppressed little country to whose help haste must be made! Thus to judge
would be more than blindness, indeed, it would be a crime that cries
unto heaven, were it not known that the life problems of other great
powers do not exist for Great Britain, because she is only concerned
about her own life problems and those of little nations whose support
can be useful to her.

At bottom Servia is of as little consequence to you as to us. Austria,
too, is of no consequence to you; and you realize that Austria had the
right to punish Servia. But because Germany, who stands behind Austria,
is to be struck; therefore Servia is the guiltless little State which
must be spared! What is the result? Great Britain sides with Russia
against Germany. What does that mean? That means that Great Britain has
torn down the dike which has protected West Europe and its culture from
the desert sands of the Asiatic barbarism of Russia and of Pan-Slavism.
Now we Germans are forced to stop up the breach with our bodies. We
shall do it amid streams of blood, and we shall hold out there. We must
hold out, for we are protecting the labor of thousands of years for all
of Europe, and for Great Britain! But that day when Great Britain tore
down the dam will never be forgotten in the history of the world, and
history's judgment shall read: On that day when Russian-Asiatic power
rushed down upon the culture of Europe Great Britain declared that she
must side with Russia because "the sovereignty of the murderer-nation
Servia had been violated!"

*As to Neutrality.*

But no, the maintenance of Servians sovereignty is not according to your
communication the first, but only the second reason for Great Britain's
declaration of war against us. The first reason is our violation of
Belgian neutrality; "Germany broke a treaty which she herself had
guaranteed." Shall I remind you how Great Britain has disported herself
in the matter of treaties and pleasant promises? How about Egypt for
example? But I do not need to go into these flagrant and repeated
violations of treaty rights, for a still more serious violation of the
rights of a people st