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Shortly after: The Chancellor is very agitated and he harangues

Posted on August 4th, 1914 by admin

Shortly after: The Chancellor is very agitated and he harangues Goschen for about twenty minutes.
He says it is “intolerable” that when Germany is trying to save itself Britain “should fall upon them just for sake of the neutrality of Belgium”. Goschen’s account of the meeting says Bethmann used the notorious phrase that Britain was going to war for “a scrap of paper”. [More]

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