GERMAN WAR POLICY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16175, 11 July 1923, Page 3

GERMAN WAR POLICY.

. 4& A GERMAN'S VIEW.

DICTATED BY MADMEN.

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LONDON, July 10. The Daily Express states that Baron von Eckardstein, who was Chancellor at tho German Embassy in London before Count Bernstorff, lias returned to London to arrange for the publication,of a book covering ten years before the war. Baron vo»i Eckardstein is no longer a dashing Prussian Guardsman, but is now grey and bearded. He was regarded as proBritish when Ho said Britain could put four million men in the field.

Interviewed, Baron von Eckardstein said : "I have dealt with events leading up to the war in a manner which may displease many of my countrymen. War would never have happened if that madman, Von Tripitz, had not hoodwinked the Kaiser into a policy of aggressive naval expansion. At the outbreak of tlie war the Kaiser had me imprisoned for saying that Britain could win. I had pointed out 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 nnd the United States and thoroughly understood the Anglo-Saxon psychology counted for nothing. Germany's policy during the war, as, previously, was dictated by madmen." ;