THE JUNKER
Reading edition
“What I have most admired in you, Bethmann, is that you have made Socialists our best supporters”
England is playing a perfectly shameful rôle in this war. Even though France were allied to Russia by an unfortunate treaty, England was not so allied! But England, who has ever been jealous of the industrial development of our country, used the violation of our treaty of neutrality with Belgium, which was incurred only in dire need and which was yielded openly and honestly in the Reichstag by the Chancellor, as a pretext to declare war against us.
Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist ex-Vice-President of the Reichstag.
