GERMANY AND THE WAR.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17812, 11 July 1923, Page 9

GERMANY AND THE WAR.

A NEW BOOK. (Vt CABMB—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT.) UCSTBALIAH AHD K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received July 10th, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 10. The "Daily Express" states that Baron von Ekardstein, who was Chancellor of the German Embassy in London before Count Bernstorff, has returned to London to arrange for the publication of a book covering the te.i years before the war. Eskardstein is no longer the dashing Prussian guardsman, but is now grey and bearded. Hj was regarded as pro-British when he said that Britain could put 4,000,000 men in the field. Interviewed, Eskardstein said: ''l have dealt in my book with the events leading up to the war in a manner which may displease many of my countrymen. The war would nevei have happened if that madman, von Tirpitz, had not hoodwinked tho Kaiser into a policy of aggressive naval expansion. At the outbreak of tho war the Kaiser had me imprisoned for Baying Britain could win. I had pointed out that Germany's policy would inevitably drive Britain into an alliance with France and Russia, but this advice was ignored. The fact that I had lived in Britain and the United States, and thoroughly unde:stood the Anglo-Saxon psychology, counted for nothing. Germany's policy during the war, as previously, was dictated by madmen."