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Show THE CRIME OF THE: AGE Not from one or a few but from multiple German source come the proofs that Maximilian Harden spoke by the card when he said, early in the war: "Not as weak-willed blunderers have we undertaken the fearful risk of this wan We wanted it"" Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the German, socialist leader, imprisoned for Jhls4E1Vpeakin?' to d the v'orfl the same truth in thece words: "The German government brought on the war-under cove 'reichstag"1 practiced upon the comWn people and een upon the '. t!T0rwae?M saii' in the fatefuI days when the. issue hung in I the balance: "As matters stand, th decision rests with Williamll Proofs are unfortunately within grasp that the camarilla of the 1 Siff3 is afirair atW-Jk' it6out the sMghte qualm of con-2C con-2C ' t0 cr33 a11 activities of the government and bring about r0,tJven the F?at 9att merchant; lit, Muehlon, the di- rector of Krupps ; Prince Lichuowsky, German ambassador at Lon-don Lon-don when the war was launched, these and other Germans of high standing have confirmed the truth. g . in the World s Work for June Ambassador Waneenheim the SSanKrTeSenttfatCoJ!:stantinopI is quoted to thTsame effect by Henry M. Morgenthau, the American ambassador at the same capital in the earlj days of the war. uassaaor a Wangenheim tojd our ambassador that he attended the Potsdam Pots-dam confeence on July 5, 1914, and that it was there war was ttZTit rior?3 Plomats, financiers, railroad directors and rapta ns of industry were present. To each the kaiser nut the question: "Are you ready for war?" The financiers asked for a respite of two weeks, to give them time to sell their foreign securi- emVtwnTaiV0a It,WSS decided t0 ve the Kers ?fe tim? they asked for, the conference adjourned, and the kaiser left Snthk? trip to Norway to establish an alibi. Says ..... "Whenever I hear people arguing about the responsi- 5 fSh 1SrWar r r?ad th,e Clumsy and "2 excsea put forth by Germany, I simply recall the burly figure of , Wangenheim as he appeared that August afternoon, puff- mg away at ahuge black cigar, an giving me this account of this historic meeting." - V . h The Gertnn financiers made'haste to take the fullest ad an tage ot thefr brief respite. Hardly was the confere'efadjourned when the New York stock exchange was flooded with selhng trders it was impossible to accent for. In two weeks Union Pa? "0f POinfS' and ther railroad and industrial securi-suffered securi-suffered heavy slumps. Attempts were made at the tirre to attribute the movement to tariff and financial legislation out the explanation was palpably insufficient. Ambassador Morgenthau clears away the mystery. The Germans are unloading the i .The At0ny that Wangenl tim told Morgenthau. complacently f.ea r.ess by Ur. Aluehion. The -aiser wanted war. He had spent a lifetime preparing for it. He had tuc-crino- Kt th0 unBu it" meat wonderful amy ever assembled-the army with which Colonel Colo-nel Rooseve't had to'd him he "could IK k ihe wild." He beloved was d'ecided6 US?1'8 f the Wirld sauhter In one of the Gilbert and Sullivan ditties there is a line about "making the punishment fit the crime." What human kgentv 'ha d SmhI ? pufhme!!f t0 fit aiser William's cSmefcri hs German empire tloe scriptures: "Vengeance is mine, faith the : Lort I, I wHl rTpay'" |