The Evidence in the Case

JAMES M. BECK, LL.D.

Reading edition

Late Assistant Attorney-General of the U. S. Author of “The War and Humanity.”

With an Introduction by

HON. JOSEPH H. CHOATE

Late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain

“Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggats with ’em? Mine ache to think on ’t.”

Hamlet—Act V., Sc. 1.

Revised Edition, with Additional Material

Illustration from The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia

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Thirteenth Impression

By James M. Beck The Evidence in the Case. The War and Humanity.

This edition is issued under arrangement with the publishers, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London

TO

ALBERT, OF BELGIUM

“Every Inch a King”

Justum, et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni, Mente quatit solida, neque Auster Dux inquieti turbidus Adriæ, Nec fulminantis magna manus Jovis. Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinæ.

Horace.