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Answer Dr. Dernburg Our Unpreparedncss for
WarOld Men Commanders Books Queries
Real Estate Financial Gardens. Poultry
THIRD section
FOURTEEN PAGES
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1914. Copyright, 1914, hy tho fltin Printing nni PubUnMng Association.
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SAYS DR. DERNBURG TRIES TO
UNDERMINE AMERICAN OPINION
George Louis Beer, Well
Known Historian. An
swers Former German
Colonial Secretary
Whose Articles in The
Sun Attracted Wide
Attention
(.i.niii.i: i.
ii.
is iinr.n,
Thr lillrlnn liiinc MrK on thr
Ilrllll iilnnlnl tciu rrrrliril
Ihr l.tinlint irlr In Itllil.
Int n r tli'" moral sympathy f
H, ncii rnl n.uimiM N ly " "Wins h
.tK'Sii'1 fnetnr. iinl It wn p.trlly
in ciwlcr to etvue tlitx mlvantnuo that
I iimar'k wiult' lnniflf keenly Vcnt on
war m ndrmtb ami unscrnpiiloiioly
maimer-d tin- alipliuiutlr pri'limtnarl.' to
,. 1 rnnco-ITueMan MruKGl'' that Na
iuu o Ml mm forcnl tu iimnimo the
r5i nf atiti.il nKKlTMnr AlthmiRh no
t ivn i.r in its nplrlt than nt. tho
timo if i i' Miiiii Chanrollor," present
German il pl.unney ha fuller, upon nvll
iluyp, ami itn tuinxlliit: methods have
nM nnh aroused air.tltm Germany a
hrt f nrmed foes, lm' has nlso alien
ated th" svmpntliy uf practically the
cm t, i u ilm'il world.
Ti tnarUi'il hostility of the American
prtx- to (iermnnyV conduct produced
:n t.iat i'u try ficlliiKu akin to dismay.
It was piiMiniaWy In order to ntcm thlh
Jo ' rtiw.ipproval. and If Ixicslble
to "irn it- couiip. that Or. DernburK,
fornicrlj the (Jet man I'nlnnlal Secretary.
U now mhIIiik us. i'art of IiIh plan
.f cHtnpaiRii h.is leen to publish more
rr lem lens'hy nrtlolea and Interviews
ire d.i.lv prcfl-i AlthoiiRh In marked
. ri ,i ' i" tlie intempei Jti; effusions of
nvn. of (ii'im.inyV npolonlali. these ut
terance t are naturally those of an advn-
ate ati'i thus bear the taint of a per
fer 1 own tf skilfully dlsKUlsed. parti
sanship Many of Or. DernburK' argu
ments f 'lion historical lines, and once
mori' ititue. the truth of Froucle's
avnih' that history Is "llkn a chlld'i
box of In lers, with which we vim npell
nnv wo-il we pleas,"
"V have only to pick out such
1'Mers ,is c want." he continues, "nn
rniiRe tli-m at. we like, ami say nothing
almut those which do not suit our pur
pose "
In his last formal article In The
Srspnv Si n of October 11 Or. Uernburfi
o a Brent extent nbatidonH the his
' irlc ill Held nnd tries to undermine the
eiir uin'ns upon which American public
op,t. m ri i ; lie ImpuKiis the rella
' )'v of the White Hooks, on the
r t Kih of which America has reached
llrm conviction that tlermany wan
ie i-.kIiI s:umbllni block In tho way
' i peaceful settlement of the acute
t! thai had arisen. Furthermore,
r 'Hiiziiik fml well that the dastardly
trra'tnont of UelKjum had arotiseil many
'r itn iiidlffi rente to Intense IndlKnatlon,
Dp Dernburu seeks to prove that Its
newriMy had been lltst violated by
tue I-r iu h
In aildl ion Or Dernlmrj? recoKnlzes
thai a further cause for American dis
approbation, if not aversion, Is tho Im-
mir.il pohtlca: philosophy that obtains
I llermuny and, cnnseiiuontly. he at
tempts to show that ISfrnhaedl's crude
and brutal doctrines are not representa
tive, and furthermore, that they can
h paralleled In the wiltlnKs of Hag
el il the well known Knxllsh publicist.
finally, perceiving that many closo stu
dents of German polity have the firm
conviction that this war Is essentially
en attempt on the part of fjei-many to
overthrow the rtrltlsh empire, and to
erect on Its ruins a world empire under
the German flaK, he attempts to prove
that Oreat Krttnln has thwarted Ger
many's leslilmate ambitions,
I. 1 lie nrltlli Wlilte l'nirra.
I" s rirefully worded and extremely
a i nil speech in the House of Com
nuns of August :i Sir Kdward Grey
1-3 !fl
We shall publish papers as soon
as we can reardlnc; what took place,
last week when we were working
for peace and when those p.ipers
are published I have no doubt that
to eveny human belnc- they will
make it clear how strenuous and
Renulne and wholehearted our ef
forts for peace wero, and that they
will enable people, to form their own
Jndirment as to what forces were at
work which operated against peace,
tn consequence, of this promise two
davs later there was laid before, Parlia
ment the text of the correspondence be
tweon the Hrltlsh Foreign Secretary nnd
he Hrltlsh diplomats In tho various Eu-
rnpean capitals respecting the crisis of
ho preceding fortnight, It would bo
patently absurd to aeek In such des
patches for the ultimate cause of tho
war, nor is it even possible, to tlnd In
hem a complete account of oil diplo
matic events during those momentous
weeks. The communications between
Aintrl.t-HunKary and Germany would
probably bo most Interesting, but nat-
rally they ivero not at .tho dlsjKMial of
British Government. Tho Hrltlsh
hlt l'aper, however, contained nn tin
hroken chain of evidence ample enough
'') rnnvlnce all unprejudiced minds that
"rat llrltaln. France. Russia and Italy
were alneerely working1 tn preserve the
Pftee of Kurope, and that Germany
'nwarted their efforts nt every turn.
This conclusion has been fully confirmed
fiv the nrtlclal publication nf Hussla and
"X the documents furnished by the
'jcrman Government. In nn respect do
"lev ronnlct with llrltlsh testimony.
Dr Perrburg now seeks to Impugn
fellablllty of the evidence upon which
wpnrtlal America haH reached a dcllulte
ifl'islon nnd dcvoteH his main attack
'he Hritisi, publication. Me says:
' White nooks Americans
Five i ijreHt deal of credit. I cannot
I know Ikiw they are made
"n . The utmost pains nre
taken on both sides to eliminate
e id correspondence nn does not
wV th mirP0,,e for which the
wTilti, Book is Issued generally to
Blvo desired Imprroalons of a certain
equation. R0. of courae,
verj'thlnr ie left out that doe not
appear uitfut
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Ur. UeiuUtiiK Is proliiibly an authorliy
on the method of compiling Mich publl-
tallons In Ciermnny, but Is his owr. per
sonal nlliclol experience a reliable Kutde
to tlm practice In Oreat Britain, where
thti Ministry Is responsible to I 'a 1 11a
ment? It Is Inconceivable thut Kir Kd
ward Orey would submit to tho Judg
ment of Parliament a set of documents
any one of which had been garbled, or
that any essential despatch had been
omitted.
As an Indication of thu curra'tnejis of
his contention as tu tho general char
acter of these publications, Dr. Dernbun;
cite the, fact that the report of Sir Kd
ward Ooschen to Sir Kdward Orey, dated
August 8, and thut of Sir Maurlco de
Hunson, datod September 1, wero pub
lished by the llrltlah Government subse
quently to tho original White Hook. It
Is not quite clear what Dr. DernburR'n
point Is. Obviously those, documents
could not have, appeared In the orlxlnnl
publication, as thoy were of data subse
quent to It. Thus tho complaint seems
tc be merely that they are dated somo
tlmo nfter the events recorded In them,
If, In default nf actual knowledge, we
were to seok for n common sensn nnd
not for a subtly sinister explanation of
this fact, tho matter would appear very
simple. On August 4. after his celebrated
Interview with the Oerman Chancellor
Immediately preceding the rupture be
tween Great Britain and Germany, .Sir
Kdward Ooschen returned tn tho em
bassy and drew up a telegraphic report
of whnt had passed, Though accepted by
tho central office, this tetoKram was ap
parently never sent, ns It never reached
tho Hrltlsh Foreign Ofllce. On August
15 Sir Kdward Goschen left Ilerlln; nnd
nfter his arrival drew up nn account of
whnt had happened. Such n statement
waa necessary to complete the records
of the Foreign Ofllce; nnd as It threw
nn Important light upon events, It was
naturally laid before Parliament. A
similarly simple explanation would prob.
ably dispel Dr. Dernhurg's Husplolmn
about the Ilunsen report nf .September I.
The "Willy"
anrt "(leorKle"
nites,
,Me.
Furthermore, Dr. Dernburg nskn why
the Hrltlsh Government did not publish
the "Willy," "Ucorgle" nnd "Nicky" cor
rcspondence. made public hy the German
Government, The explanation Is quite
simple to one versed In Hrltlsh const!
tutinnal praotlce, nut l naturally not
so plain to the citizen nf a country
whose monarch claims to bo the direct
agent of God. As a result of prolonged
struggle the House of Commons ulli-
George Louis Beer.
mati'ly established Its predominance in
tho Hrltlsh Commonwealth, und while
leaving most of the powers of Ib'i Town
Intact It successfully Insts-Utl upon the
exercise of those functions by Ministers
responsible to It. Hence tho essential
negotiations prior to th outbieak of
war wero conducted by the Foreign
Secrt-tniy. This does not, however, Im
ply that the King's personal Influence
Is not at times used hy the Ministry In
n delicate diplomatic situation,
Hut unquestionably alt letters nnd
telegrams from tho King to the Kaiser
nnd Prince Henry of ITussIa were cither
drafted by Sir Kdward Grey or sub
mitted to him for approval. Thin Is u
necessary consequence of the system of
responsible government. Thus Queen
Victoria under similar clrrumstnnces
waa at tlmen obliged ln her own hand
writing to express opinions far other
than thoso sho really held. But why, H
may lie, naked, was thla ancillary corre
spondence not published? Hern ngnln
ono runs across some peculiar fentures
of the Hrltlsh Constitution resulting
from the adaptation of mcdhevnl forma
to democratic conditions. According to
Hrltlsh practice a Minister Is rrjfponslble
for every executive act, nnd the King's
name must not bo brought Into the
polltlcnl discissions either within or
without Parliament. It Is obvious that
If this personal correspondence of the
King were laid before Parliament there
would he a violation nf this fundamental
principle, without which the system of
responsible government cannot work
smoothlv. Moreover, these documents
were naturally In cnmpleto neenrd with
those submitted nnd were In no way
essential to the fonnntlon of n correct
Judgment by Pnrllamont. Had there
been any divergence Dr. Dernburg's
query would have some point.
These nre, however, merely the
preliminary skirmishes, designed to
create In thn reader's mind the Im
pression thai vllnl facta have been
suppressed. Thn gravamen of Dr.
Dernburg'H charge Is that Hussla
had asurnnces from Oreat Brit
ain nn July 31 that It would sustain
France nt a time when the neutrality
of Belgium was not In question, This
he regards ns proved by a IflteT of that
date from the Belgian Minister In Petro
grnd to his home Government.
Source nf Tiiforninlliill.
Admitting for nrgume.nt'a sake tho
authenticity of this despatch the qiiM.
(Inn arises: Whnt were Its author's
sources of Information? Though deeply
Interested In tho outcome, m It had been
feared for years by many that Gorman;
In case of war would not hesitate to
violate the neutrality of Belgium, this
diplomat was not a party to the negotia
tions. Thero Is every reason for nssum
Ing that he did not see the despatches
bolwrcn the negotiating Governments
nnd that his Information was only such
as was vouchsafed him by hla colleagues
In the Diplomatic Corps and by the Rus
sian Ministry. In other words, It was
Incomplete und second hond Informa
tion, colored to suit the Interests of
those giving It.
In addition Dame Humor Is not An
Inconspicuous figure In his despatch,
which l nierily a "news letter" of more
or less accuracy. In It the writer utatea
that tho assurance of support given by
Knglnml to France before July 30 has
contributed not a little to giving the
Ilusslaii war party full sway. On tho
Btrewr'-h of this statement Dr. Dernhuru
triumphantly concludes that Great Brit
ain was directly responsible for the war.
He iloes not stop to consider that his
uncritical acceptance of thlB statement
Inevitably Implies the perpetration by
tho British Government of a scries of
actual forgcrlen, and.cn the part of Sir
Kdward Grey a complete distortion of
the fnotH In hla solemn statement to the
House, of Commons.
As early as July 24 M. Pnionoff ex
pressed the hope that Great Britain
would proclaim lt solidarity with nus
sla and France, nnd the French Ambas
sador at l'etrogrnd urged the same
action, This policy was ndvocnted on
thn general ground that It would lessen
the chances of wnr by making Austria
Hungary and Germany realize the
serious consequences If they remained
obdurate. Sir Kdward Grey, however,
firmly refused to bind Oreat llrltaln.
On July 30, the very dny on which
tho Belgian Minister asserted that Great
Britain had promised Its support to
France, thn British Ambassador In
I'arla telegraphed to Sir Kdward Groy
that the VresMent of thn French Re
public was "convinced that peace be
tween the Powers Is In the hnnds nf
Oreat Britain," and that If Grent Brlt
nln would announce Hint It would come
to tho nld of Frnnre In the event of n
war with Germany, Germany would
modify Its nttltude. Although this
argument had considerable weight Sir
Kdward Orey rejected It and steadfastly
adhered to his policy of the free hand
without, however, deluding Germany
into the false hope that under no cir
cumstances would Great Britain In
tervene, .On July 81 h telegraphed to the
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