It was on this day twenty-seven years ago that what was then the biggest war in history was commenced. It was a struggle for which Germany had been quietly preparing for years before. The day was Der Tag which Was to bring the Germans out into the sunshine as the dominators of the world. There was every possibility that the crisis arising Out of the throwing of a bomb at Sargjevo Tight never have led to war. That depended entirely upon the good faith displayed by Kaiser Wilhelm LI and his ministers, but good faith was missing and war was the result, There are some writers who seek to picture the rulers and ministers of Europe in those days as the victims of a blind fate. of powers and influences over which they had no control, but such men are unavailing apologists for people who were out for war as the only means of satisfying their insatiable ambitions. There would have been no war then had all been loyal in their protestations of the desire for peace. There was no loyalty, and war followed.
Sir Ian' Hamilton in an article on wat Fortunately the manifesto represents only ihe opinion of a number of White Russians who are believed to be very much in the minority. There are those who are able to rise above partisanship, and hope that their native land will be able.to throw out the invader, and that in due time domestic reforms will be brought about in Russia which will permit of their return to their homeland to participate in the fulfilment of its destinies. Such as they can only hope that the Soviet will be able to maintain the integrity of their country intact for posterity's sake. Their's is the higher spirit They have a wider loyalty. -It is possible to sympathize to some extent with the signers of the manifesto, for the motives which inspire them are after all only human, put they have failed to take the longer view which requires that the Soviet shall defeat a Power which contemplates nothing but the reduction of Great Russia to a smaller Russia and the grabbing of most.gf its riches.
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