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Seton-Watson may be cited again in support of the authorities
here listed. He refers to "the German EmperOr and his Ministers"
as"not deliberately working for war."
wash
Further, and as tellingly to the point as any of the scholars
named, the German War Chief, Von Moltks, may be named. His letter
to his wife of July 18th, 1914, indicates that on that day he did
not expect the Serbian Crisis to lead to that war, which, within
a fortnight, he eame to consider "Inevitable, 18 and contributed
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himself to precipitate.
trum.
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There is definite tes timony, which should be considered
entirely credible, to refute the "legend;" and it is extraordinarily
interesting. Bulow relates, in his Denkwirdigkeiten, and there is no
sound reason why we should not credit his story, that at the time
of the Bosnian Crisis in 1908 the Kaiser talked to him in great
excitement, with the idea that Germany ought to reverse her whole
foreign policy, and cast loose from Austria-Hungary; since in what
Austria had just done lay the seed of European war. That quick
intellect of william II, so capable, inter alia, of brilliant
flashes of penetration, had perceived, instanter, the danger spot
for European peace, the source of the coming War of 1914, created by
Ahrenthal's annexation, and he urged upon Bülow that Germany extri-
cate herself in time! Búlow, he tells us, calmed down his master by
saying he did not see why they should kick over ustria-Hungary into
the camp. of their enemies; but that he would see to it that the
situation did not lead to war!
In 1914, when precisely that situation did lead to war, Bülow
was no longer in power, since his master had dismissed hime Billow
would have us believe that if he still had been, he would have made
good his promise. Perhaps. But some of those who think less
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