IT WOULD be hard today to find a German willing to admit that in 1914 Austria deliberately took the initiative in starting hostilities, and that Germany, far from restraining her, upheld, encouraged and seconded her in that most hideous of adventures. Indeed, one of the most striking political phenomena of post-war Europe is the unanimity that German opinion has attained on the subject of Germany's innocence. The German people distrust individualism in politics, as in other spheres of life; in this unanimity, then, there is something peculiarly Germanic. Kiderlen-Wächter, when Secr
