Philipp Scheidemann- BERLIN: "THE HOUR WE YEARNED FOR"

Philipp Scheidemann- BERLIN: "THE HOUR WE YEARNED FOR"

Will Stewart

-Everyone talking about war

-No one seems to realize that war is hell

-Public demonstrations that appeal to war-mongering desires

-Counter demonstrations also organized, but cannot overcoming the "shouts of the fire-eaters"<----Fire eaters, not unlike this brave man

-Pan-German Association spread nationalist and racial theories and glorified war as an expression of national vitality

-1900- The Post says "Another forty years of peace would be a national misfortune for Germany"

-At the first Peace Conference at The Hague, Baron von Holstein said to the German delegates: "Among the Great Powers [interests] will not necessarily coincide with the maintenance of peace, but rather with the hostile policy of enemies and rivals."