s extracts from a brochure issued under
the auspices of a committee of such prominent Germans as Prince
Buelow, Herr Ballin, Dr. von Gwinner, and Field Marshal von der
Goltz, for the purpose of "opening the eyes" of the United States
regarding the causes of the present war. Copies of this pamphlet
are being given to all Americans returning home from Germany. One
chapter, headed "Neutrality by Grace of England," scoffs at the
idea of England today being the defender of neutral States and
declares that it was England who in 1911 was ready to land 160,000
men at Antwerp to help the French against the Germans.

As to who will ultimately win in the war, the pamphlet asks whether
it will be the striving nation, the young strength, or the old
peoples, France and England, with their flagging civilization in
alliance with Muscovite retrogression.

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HOW THE WAR CAME ABOUT.

Who is responsible for the war?--Not Germany! England's policy! Her
shifting of responsibility and promoting the struggle while alone
possessing power to avert it.

It is an old and common experience that after the outbreak of a war the
very parties and persons that wanted the war, either at once or later,
assert that the enemy wanted and began it. The German Empire especially
always had to suffer from such untruthful assertions, and the very first
days of the present terrible European war confirm again this old
experience. Again Russian, French, and British accounts represent the
German Empire as having wanted the war.

Only a few months ago influential men and newspapers of Great Britain as
well as of Paris could be heard to express the opinion that nobody in
Europe wanted war and that especially the German Emperor and his
Government had sincerely and effectively been working for peace.
Especially the English Government, in the course of the last two years,
asserted frequently and publicly, and was supported by The Westminster
Gazette and a number of influential English newspapers in the assertion,
that Great Britain and the German Empire during the Balkan crisis of the
last few years had always met on the same platform for the preservation
of peace. The late Secretary of State, von Kiderlen-Waechter, his
successor, Mr. von Jagow, and the Imperial Chancellor, von
Bethmann-Hollweg, likewise declared repeatedly in the Reichstag, how