 | Friedrich von Bernhardi - 1912 - 318 pages
...compelled to bring help, and we should be in a far worse position than if we had only one enemy to fight. Let it then be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle...prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral. This view undoubtedly deserves attention, but we must not hope to bring about this attack by waiting... | |
 | Friedrich von Bernhardi - 1912 - 326 pages
...compelled to bring help, and we should be in a far worse position than if we had only one enemy to fight. Let it then be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle...may be attacked by France, for then there would be reason ble prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral. This view undoubtedly deserves attention,... | |
 | Emil Reich - 1914 - 196 pages
...open to doubt. " Let it be the task of our diplomacy," General Von Bernhardi adjured his superiors, " so to shuffle the cards that we may be attacked by...prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral." 1 He remarked elsewhere (p. 296) that the Agadir Convention was " as liable to revision as the Algeciras... | |
 | Emil Reich - 1914 - 248 pages
...open to doubt. "Let it be the task of our diplomacy," General Von Bernhardi adjured his superiors, "so to shuffle the cards that we may be attacked by...France, for then there would be reasonable prospect that Eussia for a time would remain neutral. ' ' 6 He remarked else8 Germany and the Next War, p. 290. where... | |
 | Paul Vergnet - 1915 - 198 pages
...denying that General von Bernhardi has enlarged upon precisely the same idea with the utmost calm : " Let it then be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle...prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral. This view undoubtedly deserves attention, but we must not hope to bring about this attack by waiting... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1915 - 248 pages
...effect the end desired, which is the supremacy of Germany at the cost of the rest of Europe. " Let it be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle the cards...prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral." The writer glories in the fact that Frederick the Great's wars were wars of aggression — " None of... | |
 | William Archer - 1915 - 252 pages
...prescribed German ritual. ' Let it be the task of our diplomacy ', wrote General von Bernhardi in 1912, ' so to shuffle the cards that we may be attacked by France.' The aeroplane story is a last and pathetically helpless attempt to ' shuffle the cards ' according... | |
 | John Selden Willmore - 1917 - 344 pages
...compelled to bring help, and we should be hi a far worse position than if we had only one enemy to fight. Let it then be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle...prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral. " If we wish to bring about an attack by our opponents we must initiate an active policy which, without... | |
 | William Archer - 1917 - 282 pages
...out amidst all his craft in single instances. 1 —H. v. TREITSCHKE, P., Vol. i., p. 90. 371. Let it be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle the cards...there would be reasonable prospect that Russia for a 1In other words, Bismarck always told the truth when it was absolutely convenient. time would remain... | |
 | William Armstrong Fairburn - 1918 - 458 pages
...employment of hostile methods, cunning and deception, just as war itself does;" and again, "Let it be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle the cards...prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral. . . . But we must not hope to bring about this attack by waiting passively. Neither France, nor Russia,... | |
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Let it then be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle the cards that we may be attacked by France, for then there would be reasonable prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral. 
