Approaches to the great settlement . s not enjoy the confidence of the Reichstag . .Neither the German nation nor the world knows what theChancellors policy is. The Reichstags Resolution wouldhave had a different effect if it was not believed abroad thatthe Reichstag is powerless and that the Chancellor is double-tongued. Czernin, on the contrary, in an interview on July28, thought the speech, taken, as it should be, in con-junction with the Resolution, entirely clear. It wasa solemn declaration that Germany desired no forcedconquest. The imposition of further suffering isuseless, since the Ce
Approaches to the great settlement . s not enjoy the confidence of the Reichstag . .Neither the German nation nor the world knows what theChancellors policy is. The Reichstags Resolution wouldhave had a different effect if it was not believed abroad thatthe Reichstag is powerless and that the Chancellor is double-tongued. Czernin, on the contrary, in an interview on July28, thought the speech, taken, as it should be, in con-junction with the Resolution, entirely clear. It wasa solemn declaration that Germany desired no forcedconquest. The imposition of further suffering isuseless, since the Central Powers cannot be crushedand do not wish to crush. To desire an honorablepeace seems to me only a sign of common senseand morality, which revolt against the idea of pro-longing a war, the continuation of which is alreadyabsurd. A touch of humor was added to the discussion by Sir Edward Carsons rejoinder, making it a first condition of treating with the Germans, that they shall withdraw their troops behind the Rhine. This [92]. Photo by Press Illustrating Service COUNT VON CZERNIN Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary was received in Germany as a claim for the mostexcessive annexations of pure German New Statesman (London), of July 28, explainedit as mere insular ignorance of the map of Europe: Sir Edward Carson was educated at Trinity College,Dublin, of which learned institution he has now indeed beenParliamentary representative for some seventeen he early acquired that disdain for geography whichmost universities inculcate. There ought, however, to be alimit to the published and advertised ignorance of statesmen,and Sir Edward Carson passed it when he advised the Ger-man armies to retire behind the Rhine, as a preliminary tonegotiations for peace. If he was not under the impressionthat the Rhine constituted the German frontier, what im-pression was he under? Did he imagine that the UnitedStates as one of the belligerents would agree, by way of
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