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re world back into the darkness of slavery, we shall have failed in our task, and the blood shed in the fight for Liberty will have been shed in vain. * * * * * APPENDICES The following irrefutable documents, selected from among thousands of others which history will record, prove better than any other means how the Germans understand war and peace. They deserve a place in this volume because they demonstrate why and against what France is fighting. APPENDIX I HOW GERMANS FORCED WAR ON FRANCE Answering to the Pope, in September, 1917, Kaiser Wilhelm II declared "_that he had always regarded it as his principal and most sacred duty to preserve the blessing of Peace for the German people and the world_." More recently, driving through the battlefield of Cambrai, the Kaiser, according to the war correspondent of the Berlin _Lokalanzeiger_, exclaimed: "God knows what I have not done to prevent such a war!" A document made public by M. Stephen Pichon, French Foreign Minister, shows exactly how, in the last days of July, 1914, the Kaiser tried "to preserve the blessings of Peace for the German people and the world" and what he did "to prevent such a war." Speaking at the Sorbonne, in Paris, on March 1, 1918, M. Pichon said: I will establish by documents that the day the Germans deliberately rendered inevitable the most frightful of wars they tried to dishonor us by the most cowardly complicity in the ambush into which they drew Europe. I will establish it in the revelation of a document which the German Chancellor, after having drawn it up, preserved carefully, and you will see why, in the most profound mystery of the most secret archives. We have known only recently of its authenticity, and it defies any sort of attempt to disprove it. It bears the signature of Bethmann Hollweg (German Imperial Chancellor at the outbreak of the war) and the date July 31, 1914. On that day Von Schoen (German Ambassador to France) was charged by a telegram from his Chancellor to notify us of a state of danger of war with Russia and to ask us to remain neutral, giving us eighteen hours in which to reply. What was unknown until today was that the telegram of the German Chancellor containing these instructions ended with these words: _If the French Government declares it w
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