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Show ! to Sir Edward Grey's proposal for an -ambassadorial council to discuss the Serbian question on the ere of the out- ; break of the war. The attitude of Germany Ger-many at that period vras such as to con- : vince Von Jagow that tha imperial government gov-ernment was determined on war and brooked no interference with that pro- I gram. Von Jagow book only add3 to the cumulative evidence of Germany's guilt, supplied by every German statesman connected with the fallen imperial regime re-gime who has not suppressed an impulse to break into the public prints. All of them, including the former foreign minister, min-ister, pass responsibility to other quarters. quar-ters. The crime is admitted, but culpability culpa-bility is stoutly denied by all of the alibi seekers. It may B be remarked in passing that the Paris conference subcommittee sub-committee itself has compiled pretty substantial and convincing proof of German guilt, so that there is no actual occasion for Teuton information bearing bear-ing on this subject. The really important fact is that Germany, Ger-many, having loosed the dogs of war upon an unsuspecting world, i3 about to have the inevitable reckoning. Prince von Buelow, former imperial chancellor, senses the situation when he observes that it is for Germans to realize that they have ventured and lost. ' ' Now let us settle down to work and production, produc-tion, J1 he adds. German leaders will do well to drop their mutual recriminations. recrimina-tions. The imperial regime has ceased to function and Germany soon will be in the same unhappy situation unless its representative citizens take Von Buelow 's advice. VON JAGOW'S ALIBI. Herr Gottlieb von Jagow, former German Ger-man foreign minister, is the latest member mem-ber of the discarded imperialistic regime re-gime to come forward with a war alibi. Von Jagow held the post of minister of foreign affairs in the early war period. He has published a volume of memoirs devoted mainly to an embellishment of his own conduct while in office. His book contains a remarkable admission that the French "hostilities" on Ger-. man territory which served Germany as a pretext for plunging Europe into an orgy of bloodletting were "purely imaginary." They were reported to the German general army staff by subordinates, subordi-nates, Von Jagow writes, and the staff communicated the information to the imperial government w-ithout first inquiring in-quiring into the truth of the reported French "aggressions." The former foreign minister dwells at length on the British prewar efforts for an understanding with Berlin and Vienna, expressing regret that Germany did not co-operate with the English in an attempt to prevent the rupture, first with Serbia and later with Paris. He also laments Germany's failure to listen |