GERMANY'S RESPONSIBILITY.
LONDON, August 31. :In to-day's instalment-of his memoirs Mr Gerard (lata American Ambassador in Berlin) returns to the.anxious week jprior to the declaration of war. Ho relates how everything pointed to Germany's fixed determination to make war. -Finally, when^ Mr Gerard saw that there was practically no hope tie addressed, on the 30th July, 1914, a last despairing appeal to Count Holljreg, which is probably unprecedented in the annals of diplomacy. The appeal was made by letter, and was as nhder :---"Is there nothing my country can do, nothing I can do, towards stopping this dreadful war? lam sure the President will approve of an,v act of mine looking towards peace." Mr Gerard adds simply : "To this letter I never had a reply. War was declared on Russia next day."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17077, 3 September 1917, Page 5
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