Volume 2 — NEW PEACE OFFERS
Reading edition
Von Bethmann-Hollweg: "The worst of it is, I must always deny having been there."
In reality none of our enemies has approached us with suggestions of peace. Our enemies have rather considered it to their interest to attribute to us falsely offers of peace. Both facts have the same explanation—self-deception beyond compare, which we would only make worse if we approached them with peace proposals, instead of waiting for them to come to us.
Von Bethmann-Hollweg. Reichstag, December 5, 1915.
