The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ower to prevent the world-war. War was not popularamong- the English people, therefore Belgium had to serve aj abattle cry. /^- ntended as a defense of the German policy precedingthe outbreak, Jagows statement showed clearly how Ger-many had definitely decidedto go it alone, war or nowar. He maintained that shecould not have -agreed to theEnglish proposal of a confer-ence of ambassadors (in theSerbian crisis) because itdoubtless would have meantfor us a
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ower to prevent the world-war. War was not popularamong- the English people, therefore Belgium had to serve aj abattle cry. /^- ntended as a defense of the German policy precedingthe outbreak, Jagows statement showed clearly how Ger-many had definitely decidedto go it alone, war or nowar. He maintained that shecould not have -agreed to theEnglish proposal of a confer-ence of ambassadors (in theSerbian crisis) because itdoubtless would have meantfor us a serious defeat. Thebest and only possible wayout was to localize the warand secure an understandingbetween Vienna and Petro-grad and we directed all ourenergies to the attainment ofthat end. Russia at thattime had declared that shecould not permit, withoutresistance, an attack uponSerbia, and Prince Lichnowskyhad notified his government that, in the event of war. GreatBritain would stand by France, Sir Edward Grey had givenhis famous warning, and France was known to be bound byopen treaties of twenty years standing to support Russia in. (iOTTLIEB VON JaGOW (Teniian Foreign Minister in 1914 10/ OUTBREAK AND CAUSES case of a conflict. It was in the face of all this that allour energies were directed to the localization of the war,but what was meant by this attitude was that Austria wasto have a free hand in Serbia, and, in the event of anyinterference from Russia, Germany was to stand by Austria,Jagows reply was perhaps the most conclusive documentthat had yet been published. It gave to Lichnowskysmemorandum a force and veracity which it could scarcelyhave otherwise possest. It was idle to attempt to wave aside Lichnowskys expo-sure of Germanys methods on the theory that he was aman of no consequence. A man who had been in turnGerman Ambassador in Vienna and in London was not to bedismissed in that fashion. Moreover, his Memorandumhad not been written for argumentative purposes;
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