" 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.
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