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lated for in that treaty, France and England would undertake Serbia's obligation for her. Forty-eight hours later, an answer came from France and England that they would be ready to undertake this obligation. Venizelos at once reminded Sir Francis Elliot, the British Minister, that he had only asked a question, and that the conditions under which it would become a request were not yet fulfilled. In the meantime, however, the English and French Governments proceeded with plans for the landing of troops without further ado, and, on October 2nd, announced the fact to Venizelos. Although he was, at the moment, risking his own position in support of Serbia and the Allies, Venizelos was not only surprised but annoyed by the fact that his hand had been forced, and he made a formal protest the same day. There is no doubt about the facts, and no doubt that Venizelos has more than once felt hurt that his account of the matter has not been accepted by the English Government.
Venizelos is not only the most loyal, but the most truthful of statesmen. Surely it is time that these allusions to an "invitation" should cease. The pathetic side of the matter is that, on this one occasion when we acted more quickly than Venizelos wished us to, the actual force which we saw our way to land, so far from being the needed 150,000 men, was too small either to defend Serbia, to overawe Bulgaria, or to encourage Greece.
The Literature of Pangermanism (III)
M. André Chéradame's "Le Plan Pangermaniste Démasqué" has already been mentioned as a companion volume to Professor Andler‘s collection of Pangerman authorities.
Another Frenchman, Professor Blondel, whose books on modern Germany are well known, has also made a competent contribution to the study of Pangermanism in his volume, "La Doctrine Pangermaniste" (1915). That doctrine is represented as the extension, or rather the culmination of German philosophy, which betrays, even in its most mystic utterances, a yearning for worldly power and leadership. It is shown how both Eckhardt and Jacob Böhme, no less than Kant himself, prepared the way for Hegel and his deification of the State, and how Bismarck, by uniting
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