Professor Hans Delbruck has written with reason, 'Blessed be the hand that falsified the telegram of Ems!'" It was convenient to have the war break out immediately, in order that events might result favorably for Germany, whose enemies are totally unprepared.

Preventive war was recommended by General Bernhardi and other illustrious patriots.

It would be dangerous indeed to defer the declaration of war until the enemies had fortified themselves so that they should be the ones to make war.

Besides, to the Germans what kind of deterrents could law and other fictions invented by weak nations possibly be?
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