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convinced The Times that Austria was responsible for the war in the sense that the criminal recklessness of Austrian statesmen had deliberately provoked it, and that Germany was responsible in that if the Kaiser had forbidden it there would have been no war.
On July 27, 1914, when Austria had refused to accept the Serbian reply to the ultimatum and had stood out before the world as plainly determined to fight, The Times said in an editorial article:
Four days later, when it was evident that the German conscience either had not awakened or was unable to affect the consciences of the rulers of Germany, The Times observed:
It will be freely said that Count Berchtold has seized what seemed to him a most
propitious moment for dealing a blow at Pan-Slavism and strengthening Pan-Ger
manism, and incidentally- reviving the German party in Austria. . The only
hope of peace seems to be in the awakening of the German conscience.
On August 2 The Times pronounced the famous speech of the -German Emperor about' the sword which had been forced into his hand " a piece of pompous humbug," and after deploring the fact that evidently some European peoples, even-those
Now is the very-best of all times for tak ing account of the frightful wrong involved in
governmental' systems which permit great and prosperous peoples to be dragged into
the war without- consulting their will and their welfare.
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