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GERMANY AND AMERICA; | ' SPEECH BY VON BETHMANN" " ■ hollweg■■";-. -i i , ■■: ''■ .-. . -..'.- ' ... :■■... •; '/-.■ "WE DO ■^^mx^^W;*} ■ *- : (Rec. Mm^M,:^^.!^.\:^ : J u : - ■.■■'-.. March"3o.' ; .;■ The Press Bureau states: A wireless . V message from' Berlin states that-Herr ' von . Bethmann-Hollweg, ; speech -";' .; of the,greatost;';iniportanoe in th» - : Reichstag, concerning Germany's policy with America andßussk;'declared that : . Germany-had 4ibteihe ; slightest inten-".'.'. ;i----tion "of, attacking the United States. ■..; '"She.-has -never desired, nor does she, desire, war Tvith America. How. did '• matters develop?: We told the United States,.more: than once;, that _wa had. ienomiced Tinrestriot'eU submarine" warfare, expecting;that Englandcould be made to observe in her'blockade polioy the'laws,of humanity and international : "j. agreement. . President WilsoD. !: and -Mr.' Lansing described! policyf'".".'■: as illegal and indefensible;' Our eight months of expectation has been com* pletilyt disappointed. _ England has: , : ; uninterruptedly .intensified. that policy.- "'■■•(, England, with'Jher , - ; rebuked our peace 'offer, rani pMclain#s i V her war aims, implying that ours,; and -.". that of our allies," was one of annrhila-, tion: Then VB & ' ; 'to6k-'..:. : ''imrasttidt-.' ; ; ' 'ed : submarine''';', into four,': ; hands. .We were compelled -to: ■;.; do so.; ; If America regards this as a'- . : : reason '.to declare war with a nation.with which she has lived in peaoe for upwards of a century, if thereby, she •:;•;•-. desires to increasejthe bloodshed, the, responsibility "will-not be ours. '.-'GerV;;. .';.■;:■; many, who feels neither hatred, nor.; >•.':• hostility for America, will also bear;' •.'"■ this, and overcome it.—-Aus.-N.Z.- •'■.- Cable Assn.-Reiiter.: • ; ■'. \ ,'.-'■'.•—f-,\:;V:
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3042, 31 March 1917, Page 11
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224LATE NEWS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3042, 31 March 1917, Page 11
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