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Show IS ANYONE FOOLED? MAXIMILIAN Harden, Germany's best-known journalist, wrote in August, 1914, in his magazine, "Die Zukunft": "What use are cheap excuses? Yes, we provoked the war; we glory in it. We provoked it because we were sure of victory." At about the same time the kaiser was addressing a cablegram to President Presi-dent Wilson explaining that the war was his, but that he honestly thought he had so played his cards as to make sure of England's staying out. Ex-Ambassador Gerard still has that cablegram cable-gram in the kaiser's handwriting; a facsimilie of it has been reproduced by the Philadelphia Ledger. It is only since doubts have crept into the kaiser's mind as to whether he can win the victory vic-tory and save his imperial skin that Germany has made any very earnest pretense that the . kaiser loves, or tried to keep, the peace. Collier's. |