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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25
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removes responsibility for it from the shoulders of those who plotted it and started it, the statement is neither correct nor worthy of argument by honest minded men. A conflict has been inevitable whenever in the history of the world brigands robbers or wild beasts have attacked the peaceful settlements and homes of men who were trying in their own way. As long as courage remains such circumstances will be inevitable. But there is no room in the code of men of honor for an excuse or apology of this kind set up as a defense of the most outrageous violation of the laws of humanity, and the most tremendous transgression of the principles of morality and of national conduct that the world has ever seen. One argument to justify themselves, advanced by the pres that m therefore the German nation may moral law which obtains among individuals morality. We evidence the mouths of the Germans themselves. For example, we are told by the author of Gross-Deutschland, published in 191 If that: "in the good old times it happened that a strong people thrust a weak one out of its ancestral abode by wars of extermination. Today everything goes on peaceably on this wretched earth, and it is those who have profited who are for peace. The little peoples and the remnants of a people have invented a new word—that is international law. In reality it is nothing else than their reckoning on our good-natured stupidity Room! they must make room! Since we are the stronger the choice will not be difficult." Again we are told, in a volume published in 1895, that: win political rights; however, they will condescend so far as to delegate inferior tasks to foreign subjects who live among them." Still again, we are told: "Let no man say every people has a right to its existence, its speech, etc. With this saying in one's mouth one can easily appear civilized, but only 4€ 10
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