How He Killed Pope's Peace Move: Letter From Doorn How the ex-Kaiser sabotaged the Pope's attempt in 1917 to bring the belligerents together and end_the war on x basis of no indemnities and no annexations was revealed in Berlin during the sitting of the Parliamentary War Inquiry Com-
"I coald' not fail to recognize, however, your reasons, and s0 agreed to the giving up of Belgium, Bue with that renuneiation I had to attach condi: tions in the interests of the future maintenance of peace."
This letter failed to convince the 'Commission of the Kaiser's sincer-and Scheidemann, the Socialist leader, revealed Wilhelm's real at-tirade' by reading @ marginal note which he made on a diplomatic vcument, while the reply to the Pope's letter was still under com sideration, This referred to the possibility. fof America taking the initiative im a, peace move, and was in the following amazing terms:—14
"Wilson must give up the idea that he can do what he likes with the German nation, Wilson pete of understanding will not be aceefited by the army ye ration or the Kaiser."
Michaelis, the famous ""hund-rel-day" Chancellor after the fall of Bethmann-Hollweg, was examin-and explained how the British ly to the Pope's letter excluded possibility of peace unless, as a preliminary, Germany gave a' clear surance that the full sovereignty of Belgium would be restored.
The Kaiser's first reply "We won't anax any part of Belgium, but we will prevent Belgium' again becoming a jumping-off place, "We will renounce the Flanders const, but in exchange we will get from England bases in the Mediterranean, cither at Corfu or Valona, "Belgium must be made economically dependent on us through a partnership of German and Belgium capital." and
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