At a somewhat later stage the wind veered and the Entente endeavoured to make a separate peace with us.
Several important details only came to my knowledge later, some at the time of my resignation in the spring of 1918, and some not until the collapse in the winter of 1918-19.

There was no lack of voices to blame me for a supposed double policy, which the public also suspected, and to accuse me of having made different statements to Berlin from those I made in Paris.

These charges were brought by personal enemies who deliberately slandered me, which tales were repeated by others who knew nothing about the affair.

The fact is that when I heard of the episode I immediately _possessed myself of documents proving that not only did I know nothing whatever about the matter_, but could not possibly have known.
Astronomical causes sometimes give rise to disturbances in the universe, the reason of which cannot be understood by the observer.

I felt in the same way, without being able to prove anything definite, from certain signs that I noticed, that in those worlds on the other side of the trenches events were happening that were inexplicable to me.