COUNT BERNSTORFF

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 5

COUNT BERNSTORFF

I A REMARKABLE INTERVIEW

IoRK OF YEARS RUINED BY GERMANY

j WILL TELL THE KAISER THE

J. ' %Bt TBKEOBAPH. —UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYBIGHT.)' 'i . (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEAIAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ?! (Received February 24, 8.30 a.m.) I NEW YORK, 23rd February. 1 The New York editor of Pearson's Magazine has had a remarkable inter--1 view with Count Barnstorff, who says : "My Government told me not to admit ,"| that the sinking of the Lusitania was illegal. 'President Wilson insisted that -I it -was illegal, and I left the White House feeling that war was inevitable, but, | returning, begged President Wilson as man to man not to give up his position <j as arbiter between the warring nations." <\ -Count Bernstorff himself did not approve of the morality. The sinking ! of tho Lusitania and the'announcement of intensified submarining was a blow • to the Ambassador, who feels that his work of years has been ruined, and by . i Germany. | Asked regarding his plans for the future, the Countess interjected :"I want him to be chosen for Paris." Count Bernstorff said it would be a superhuman task to win back the ! friendship of France. , . I The interviewer ; ' 'Why not give back the French provinces of Lor'i raine?" . jj Count Bernstorff: "The German people will-never give them up. ,We are { the victors. That is out of the question." \ Asked as to his views regarding the religion of future humanity, Count I Bernstorff replied : "I know this world, and I do not trouble about any other. I Frankly, I dislike Churches, and I doubt whether they have any influence for I good. A man is a fool who denies himself any good thing in this life, except i . for health or other dominant reason." | Count Bernstorff described President Wilson as a rare combination of sensitive conscience and great strength. The interviewer adds: "Count Bernstorff will tell the Kaiser- the truth. Rnt will he be in time to prevent the irreparable ?"