A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 13

brushed accordingly apart, and the army made all the preparations for a
invasion of France through Belgium. The diplomatistses would have done a
resistance of stouter made to anticipate them the attitude to which England was
you adopt. But the German ambassador to London, Prince Lichnowsky, failed
to convince his/her Government that there was anything to fear from the
I reign British. The Mr. Lloyd George has asked him as one of the
advantages that we deduce from the British press that misguides public
opinion to the foreign countries and a study of "The Times", the only British newspaper
that brings a lot of weight in foreign countries, you/he/she has been able to persuade well
the German Government in 1914 that eight years of Liberal
is not probable that administration has offered England with the
he/she wants to say, or left it the spirit, to challenge the strength of Germany. You
it was known to have entered any binding alliance with France or
Russia;  peace never had in all of their history been broken among
the two great Protestant Powers;  and, while there had been being serious
naval and colonial rivalry and of the diplomatic attrition, relationships in
1913-14 seemed to have digitato calmer waters. Germany had been well
satisfied with the efforts and sacrifices that England had made to prevent
the Balkan crisis to develop himself/herself/themselves in an European war;  and Lichnowsky
you/he/she was negotiating with success essays that gave Germany unexpected
advantages with respect to the platform in Baghdad and African
colonization. In the eve of war the English were greeted as cousins in
Berlin and the first bill of the German official excuse,
understood for the American consumption, he/she spoke of Great Britain and Germany
shoulder that he/she works for taking on the shoulders to preserve the peace against the Russian
aggression. The anger of the Kaiser, the Chancellor's nervousness,
and the fury of the populace when England declared war it showed that
Germany didn't have any present intention to add the British empire to her
list of enemies and little fears that intervened unless is