RIGHT AND MIGHT
STRIKING SPEECH I.N REICH-
STAG.
(Received August 24, 3.30 p.m.)
AMSTERDAM, 23rd August,
In the Reichstag Herr Kuhlmann, Foreign Minister, addressing the. Main Committee,i said : "Our treatment of neutrals is important, and the prevention of further ruptures in relations is a material task, which can' only be solved by the principle that might is not the only factor, but "also right. : "Any policy based on might is doomed to failure beforehand. The study of the enemy's psychology. *s- also important, as we should not- destroy, by hard^ grim words, eventual feelings of reconciliation." He also declared that this will probably be the last.year of the war. The Progressives / are delighted with the speech. Social Democrats declared that as long as the enemy refused to conclude peace. Germany must continue her military pressure. They believed that Germany would be unable to force peace by means of the submarines.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 47, 24 August 1917, Page 8
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