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Bülow relates that at the time when Moltke had been picked by the
Kaiser to succeed to the post of Chief of Staff, Moltke wished to
avoid the appointment. He felt unequal to its responsibilities;
himself not a man "to make great decisions. n He came to Billow to
the
oneasion
whinh
led
request the latter's intercession against his appointmant
later
Bulow, sympathetic enough, yet declined to intervene. He told
my
Moltke this was a military matter. Then declared that he , Bulow,
"
a llowed no one to interfere in his own department. " Therefore, he
as
as
could not properly interpase in a department not his own. I see
no reason why we should not take this S tory, at its face g for full
value.
"INATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
The Untoward Influence of the Myth upon the world S Peace.
The erroneous notions of German policy, and of Staff relation
thereto, which have been discussed, the failure to limit the concept
of the "war-guilt" of the German Government in 1914 to those offences
of which the Government was in reality and beyond question guilty,
the unbased imputation to Government and Army of other and sinister
offences, for which evidence fails, this myth about Hohenzollern
Germany influenced for evil the peacemaking when the First War was
over. The consequances of this evil have not ceased to flow. At this
moment they again darken counsel and cloud the prospect.
The poison to the international atmosphere from this source
works morè noxiously now than it did in 1919, precisely because the
foul deeds of Nasism, of recent perpetration, lead the heedless and
the undiscriminating to an even firmer faith in the fiction than
held by its believers at the earlier date. Bitterness against Germany
today is so fed upon recent fact it more readily falls victim to
past illusion.
Even so, how condone the later fact? And how relate it to the
earlier?
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