Innumerable are the pieces of evidence that as early as the spring and summer of 1914, when nobody in Germany believed as yet in the Entente's attack, war had been prepared in Russia, France, Belgium and England.
I included the most important proofs of this, in so far as they are known. to me, in the "Comparative Historical Tables" compiled by me On account of their great number, I shall cite only a few here. If in so doing I do not mention all names, this is done for reasons easily understood. Let me remark furthermore that this whole mass of material became known to me only little by little, partly during the war, mostly after the war.
(1) As far back as April, 1914, the accumulation of gold reserves in the English. banks began. On the other hand, Germany, as late as July, was still exporting gold and grain; to the Entente countries, among others.
(2) In April, 1914, the German Naval Attache in Tokio, Captain von Knorr, reported that he was greatly struck by the certainty with which every one there f6resaw a war of the Triple Alliance against Germany in the near future... that there was a something in the air as if, so to speak, people were expressing
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