to revolt?  Would it have issued a milder ultimatum than Austria’s?  But of all this you say not a word in your communication, but instead persist on seeing in the situation into which Servia and Russia have brought Austria, only the necessity of an oppressed little country to whose help haste must be made!  Thus to judge would be more than blindness, indeed, it would be a crime that cries unto heaven, were it not known that the life problems of other great powers do not exist for Great Britain, because she is only concerned about her own life problems and those of little nations whose support can be useful to her.

At bottom Servia is of as little consequence to you as to us.  Austria, too, is of no consequence to you; and you realize that Austria had the right to punish Servia.  But because Germany, who stands behind Austria, is to be struck; therefore Servia is the guiltless little State which must be spared!  What is the result?  Great Britain sides with Russia against Germany.  What does that mean?  That means that Great Britain has torn down the dike which has protected West Europe and its culture from the desert sands of the Asiatic barbarism of Russia and of Pan-Slavism.  Now we Germans are forced to stop up the breach with our bodies.  We shall do it amid streams of blood, and we shall hold out there.  We must hold out, for we are protecting the labor of thousands of years for all of Europe, and for Great Britain!  But that day when Great Britain tore down the dam will never be forgotten in the history of the world, and history’s judgment shall read:  On that day when Russian-Asiatic power rushed down upon the culture of Europe Great Britain declared that she must side with Russia because “the sovereignty of the murderer-nation Servia had been violated!”

As to Neutrality.

But no, the maintenance of Servians sovereignty is not according to your communication the first, but only the second reason for Great Britain’s declaration of war against us.  The first reason is our violation of Belgian neutrality; “Germany broke a treaty which she herself had guaranteed.”  Shall I remind you how Great Britain has disported herself in the matter of treaties and pleasant promises?  How about Egypt for example?  But I do not need to go into these flagrant and repeated violations of treaty rights, for a still more serious violation of the rights of a people stands today on your books against you; it has been proved that your army is making use of dumdum bullets and thereby turning a decent war into the most bloody butchery.  In this Great Britain has severed herself from every right to complain about the violation of the rights of a people.