Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Disclosures as to the Origins of the World War," next turned to a discussion of some of the discoveries he had made in this connection. He said, "During the Senatorial investigation into the responsibility for the World War, which took place in 1923, a secret treaty between France and Russia, signed in 1892, was discovered. This treaty stipulated that the moment any one of the powers of the Triple Alliance should mobilize, for whatever cause, Russia and France should mobilize simultaneously without even communicating with each other...
...between Paris and St. Petersburg which have been recently brought to light. These show beyond the shadow of a doubt that these countries were intentionally leading up to a war with Germany. With Great Britain, who had joined them through a fear of Germany's growing power, France and Russia knew that they had Germany in a net from which she could not possibly escape. The Triple Alliance was weakened by the practical withdrawal of Italy and the weakness of Austria. With Russia on the east, France on the west, and England in control of the seas, the statesmen...
...CRIMSON reporter then asked Senator Owen if he laid the entire blame for the war on France and Russia and how he explained the preparedness of Germany...
...certainly convinced," Senator Owen replied, "that France and Russia are entirely responsible for the war, and that they worked deliberately to bring it on. On July 24, 1914, actual preparations for war were undertaken by both France and Russia, although it was not known by the Czar that the mobilization was to be general until July 30. Germany, who had been forced to keep her army in readiness by the preparations of her rivals realized in the last days of July, when she could see that war was inevitable, that her only chance lay in speed...
...attitude of the Kaiser on the eve of the war is brought out, beyond the possibility of misunderstanding, in a comment he wrote on one of the official dispatches from Russia, which to him sealed the future fate of Germany. He dwells with bitterness on this final triumph of what he considers the machinations of the English diplomatic corps. He also foresees with sadness the years of misery and war, and the final overthrow of Germany. That scarcely sounds to me like the language of a man who has just reached the long awaited hour of glory and conquest...