The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . among theGreat Powers. [_Either in self-defense, owing to severe criti-cism of his conduct while inLondon, or for some otherreason, Lichnowsky had madeit plain that, if his own rep-resentations and Sir EdwardGreys appeals for a confer-ence of the Powers had beenheeded in Berlin, there wouldhave been no general war? Heshowed that Great Britain sin-cerely desired p^aT^er-an^r^rtratshe strove to avert the strug-gle by bringing about a conference of the Pow
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . among theGreat Powers. [_Either in self-defense, owing to severe criti-cism of his conduct while inLondon, or for some otherreason, Lichnowsky had madeit plain that, if his own rep-resentations and Sir EdwardGreys appeals for a confer-ence of the Powers had beenheeded in Berlin, there wouldhave been no general war? Heshowed that Great Britain sin-cerely desired p^aT^er-an^r^rtratshe strove to avert the strug-gle by bringing about a conference of the Powers to in-fluence Austria and Russia to keep the peace. Jagow alsobore testimony to the peaceful disposition of Great , he said that when he took oflice in 1913, shewas ready to enter into friendly agreements with Ger-many concerning the Bagdad Railway and other ques-tions; in fact an agreement had almost been reachedjust previous to the outbreak of the war, and GreatBritain, after the dispatch of the note to Serbia, hadplayed a conciliatory role and urged moderation uponVienna. In fact Jagow put himself in a position of. Tkixce LichnowskyGerman Ambassador to Great Britainin 1914, wlio published a memoran-dum dealing with the world which he said it was precipitatedby the perfidy of Berlin 106 CAUSES OF THE GREATER CONFLICT squarely dissenting from the opinion, laboriously built up fornearly four years in Germany, that Great Britain was thecause of the war. These were his words: I do not intend to adopt the theory now widespread among-lis that England was the originator of all the intrigues leading-to the war. On the contrary, I believe in Sir Edward Greyslove of peace and his genuine desire to arrive at an understand-ing with us, but he had allowed himself to become too hopelesslyentangled in the network of Franco-Russian policy. He couldfind no way out and therefore failed to do that which had beenin his power to prevent the world-war. War was not popula
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