Volume 2 — PAN GERMANICUS AS PEACE MAKER
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The Dove: "They say they do not want peace as they have time enough."
The Eagle: "Alas! That is just what we haven't got."
Gentlemen, I have spoken candidly. I have been able to say openly that we desire peace, because the German Nation is sufficiently strong, and because it is resolved to continue the fight in defense of home and country should its enemies not wish for peace.
The Imperial Chancellor knows that the whole world is waiting in breathless expectation his reply to our interpellation. I trust that he will find the redeeming words, and that he will express his readiness to enter into peace negotiations.
Philip Scheidemann, Chairman German Socialist Party, Reichstag, March, 1916.
