An Associated Press message from! Berlin states:—Secret documents on the submarine war now published include an account of the conference held at Pless on January and 9, 1917, between Field Marshal Yon Hindenburg, General Ludendorf and Admiral von Holtzendorf and other naval officers.
'Admiral von Holtzendorft advocated unrestricted U-boat war, About which, however, he asserted the German' Emperor. and Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg seemed to be lukewarm. He added that Bethmann Hollweg ante diplomatic preparations, as preliminary, Pivtorder to keep the United States out of the war, and that the opinion prevailed in the Foreign Office that if the United States came in South America was Bomon & follow. ae a In the course 0: e_conversations von Holtzendorff said: "'What shall we do if the Chancellor refuses?"
Von Hindenburg—"That's what! is bothering me, too."
Von Holtzendorft—'"Then you must become Chancellor."
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