The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . 28 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK. Alfred Zimmerman, Germanys ex-foreign minister. south, Switzerland forms an extremelysolid bulwark, and wc can rely on liorenergetically defending her neutralityagainst France, and tlius protecting ourflank. The violation of Belgian neutrality wasnot the plan of a moment, the exigency ofa war forced upon the peaceful Germanpeople, as the Kaiser sought to impressupon the world. It had been plannedbefore the declaration of war, before themobilization of the First French armyalong the bord
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . 28 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK. Alfred Zimmerman, Germanys ex-foreign minister. south, Switzerland forms an extremelysolid bulwark, and wc can rely on liorenergetically defending her neutralityagainst France, and tlius protecting ourflank. The violation of Belgian neutrality wasnot the plan of a moment, the exigency ofa war forced upon the peaceful Germanpeople, as the Kaiser sought to impressupon the world. It had been plannedbefore the declaration of war, before themobilization of the First French armyalong the border between Prance andGermany had made the overrunning ofBelgium a desired military policy. Thefollowing reveals the plans of the Prus-sian war lord along these lines: Our aim must be to take the offensivewith a large superiority from the tirstdays. ... If we could induce these States[on the northwestern frontier] to organ-ize their system of fortification in such amanner as to constitute an effective pro-tection for our flank, we could al)andonthe proposed invasion. ... If, on the con-trary, their defen
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