POLICY OF MADMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1923, Page 5

POLICY OF MADMEN.

WHY GERMANY MADE WAR. VON TIRPITZ BLAMED. *A PRUSSIAN’S WARNING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 10, 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 ten years before the war. Baron Ekardstein is no longer a dashing Prussian Guardsman, but id now grey and bearded. He was regarded as pro-British when he said Britain- could put four million men in the field. Interviewed, Baron Ekardstein said: “I have dealt with the events leading up to the war in a manner which may displease many of my countrymen. The war. could never have happened if that madman von Tirpitz had not hoodwinked the Kaiser into a policy of aggressive naval expansion. At the outbreak of war the Kaiser had me imprisoned for saying Britain could win. ‘1 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 understood Anglo-Saxon psychology counted for nothing. Germany’s policy during the war, as previously, was dictated by iniidtaen.”