The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . erman menare ready to shed their blood forthe fame and greatness of Ger-many. We can only trust in hitherto has always given usvictory. On August 3 theReichstag was formally openedin the White Room of the Palace,the Kaiser entering with theKaiserin, clad in his gray battle-field uniform. Besides the Im-perial Chancellor, there were present the Chief of the General Staff, von Moltke, Admiral vonTirpitz, other generals and admirals, cabinet minist
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . erman menare ready to shed their blood forthe fame and greatness of Ger-many. We can only trust in hitherto has always given usvictory. On August 3 theReichstag was formally openedin the White Room of the Palace,the Kaiser entering with theKaiserin, clad in his gray battle-field uniform. Besides the Im-perial Chancellor, there were present the Chief of the General Staff, von Moltke, Admiral vonTirpitz, other generals and admirals, cabinet ministers, and thediplomatic corps, except the Ambassadors of Russia and American Ambassador, Mr. Gerard, was present in eveningclothes. The Kaiser read his war speech from sheets held in hisright hand.* Observers found it difficult to describe, in terms easilyintelligible to an English reader, the facility with whichGermany now threw off her whole civilian trappings andreverted to the pure type of a military State. Within afew hours of the issue of mobilization orders the wholecountry was under military control. Government depart-. Theodoue von Bethmaxx-HollweoGerman Chancellor in 1914. authorof the Scrap of Paper remark tothe British Ambassador, Sir EdwardGoschen 165 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES raeiits, provincial administrations, municipal administrations,all lost th^ very show of independence, and became hand-maids of the military rulers of the country. In Berlin,for instance, all power passed at once into the hands of theMilitary Governor. Throughout the Empire the real con-trol of administration was vested in generals in command ofarmy-corps districts—that is to say, in generals who werekept behind as deputies for generals who had taken thefield. It was they who guided the public by constant procla-mations, they and their subordinates who managed every-thing, and saw to it that the needs of the army and theprosecution of the war were held superior to other con-siderations.
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