Note 838 — Chapter XII · THE STATE (C) PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
The most striking example of this for future generations will be the “War-guilt” question, which is the question—who possesses the power, through control of press and cable in all parts of the world, to establish in world-opinion that truth which he needs for his political ends and to maintain it for so long as he needs it? An altogether different question (which only in Germany is confused with the first) is the purely scientific one—to whose interest was it that an event about which there was already a whole literature should occur in the summer of 1914 in particular?