Note 8 — § 1.

Since this was written Maximilian Harden in his paper Zukunft has used these words: “Germany is calumniated when it is said that she wanted war, not to defend herself, but in order to conquer. But it is equally false to suppose that England, France, or Russia, who were either not armed at all, or only half ready . . . deliberately planned an attack. The outbreak of the war could not be arrested; because at the decisive moment the Will of the Strategists was stronger than the Will of the Statesmen.”