GERMANY AND THE WORLD WAR (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “ν”

(“NU”)

GERMANY AND THE WORLD WAR

Germany and the World War.

(A collection of articles: 686 pp.). Berlin, 1915.

(Published by O. Hintze, Fr. Meinecke and others.)

N.B. Professor Dr. Hans Uebersberger (Vien-na). “Russia and Pan-Slavism”—a useful sketch ofRussian diplomacy, lists a number of sources....

Martens, “A Collection of Treaties”, 15, p. 237 (Chancellor Nesselrode’s letter to Kiselyov, Minister in Paris, August 30, 1848, on a Franco-Russian rapprochement against Germany).

Barsukov, “Life of Pogodin”, 5, p. 330 et seq.; 9, p. 262 (Pogodin’s Memorandum, in 1840, on “liberation” of the Austrian Slavs).

Tyutchev. In a memorandum “Russia and Revolution” (for Alexander II)—“Bohemia will be free when Galicia is Russian” (Russky Arkhiv, 1873, p. 926 et seq.).

Memorandum of 1864. “Modern Politics” (drawn up on the instructions of Gorchakov); the Austrian Slavs must look to Russia to free them: (Eckhardt) “Secret Russian Memorandum, 1864” in Deutsche Rundschau, VI, 11, p. 209 et seq.

Moscow Slav Charitable Society. Its policy.

Danilevsky, “Russia and Europe”: articles in Zarya, 1869-70, and a book: 1st edition in 1871.

Danilevsky argued that France’s defeat would be to Russia’s advantage, for it would foster dissension and enmity between France and Germany and favour Russian domination (appeared in Zarya, January 1871; reprinted in Danilevsky’s Collection of Economic and Political Articles, St. Petersburg, 1890, pp. 27 and 29).

Fadeyev, The Eastern Question—an Opinion, St. Petersburg, 1870.

P. A. Saburov’s Memorandum, Russky Arkhiv, 1912, 1, p. 470 ((“the success of Prussian arms, 1870, is also a victory for us”. Sic!!!)).

Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov: speech of July 4, 1878 (against Russian diplomacy and, indirectly, against the tsar: dissatisfaction with the Berlin Congress).

Pokrovsky, “Russian Foreign Policy” in History of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, 9, p. 204 et seq. (and p. 174) (Russia’s claims on Bulgaria and her railways in 1877).

“Neo-Slavism” in 1908 and thereabouts.

cf. Vestnik Yevropy, 1909, No. 1, p. 386.

May 1908: a Czech (Member of Parliament), a liberal Slovene and a Russophile Ruthenian, visit Russia (St. Petersburg)

Dmowski, Germany, Russia and the Polish Question

(a plan to “reconcile” the Poles with Russia at the cost of oppressing the Ukrainians).

P. Struve, “Patriotica”, p. 213 (The Slav Days).

Moskovsky Yezhenedelnik, 1910, No. 27, column 4.

Yevgeny Trubetskoi against Menshikov, for rapproche-ment with the Poles.

Goryainov (director of archives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs): Bosporus and the Dardanelles, 1907.

G. Trubetskoi, Russia as a Great Power, p. 122 (for the time being, Italy is more useful in the enemy camp!!!)

Gr. Yevreinov (Senator), Ideology of the Near-Eastern Question, St. Petersburg, 1911.

Slavyanskiye Izvestia, 1913, No. 8 (January 6 (19), 1913); 1912, No. 45 (November 10 (23), 1912).

N.B. Novoye Zveno, 1914, No. 13, p. 407(March 28, 1914)—Bryanchaninov, three monthsbefore Sarayevo, predicts a European war within1½-2 months.

FRANKE, “THE GREAT POWERS IN EASTERN ASIA”

This article by Otto Franke, “The Great Powers in Eastern Asia”, is included in the same volume.

A useful summary of the facts (partly with source references) about how China was robbed by Britain and France (Annam by France, Burma by Britain, Tibet by Britain, Siam by France and Britain—all former parts of China or areas dependent on her).

p. 442: “...The Japanese ambassador, CountHayashi, reveals in his notes, the publicationof which, unfortunately, was stopped by theTokyo Government, that on the initiative ofJoseph Chamberlain, negotiations were con-ducted in London in 1898 with Japan foran Anglo-Japanese-German triple alliance asa barrier to Russia’s continued penetrationinto Eastern Asia. This coincided with confi-dential British overtures to Berlin on anAnglo-German alliance.
_N.B._1898: nego-tiations foran Anglo-German-JapaneseallianceagainstRussia
Theydid notstrike abargain!! These were without result, if only becauseGreat Britain had nothing to offer or proposeto Germany other than the honour of takingthe field against Russia. Japan, however,did not hesitate; she was ready to enter intosuch an alliance with Germany”.... (442-43).
July 1910 (p. 456) treaty betweenRussia and Japan: Japan is given a free handin Korea. [Some weeks after she annexesKorea.] —Russia in Mongolia (Russo-Chinese treatyconcluded in the spring of 1911).
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September 17, 1914: Russia con-cludes a treaty with “independent” Mongolia(establishing factual Russian protectorate)
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1911: Anglo-Japanese treaty (replacing the old one)— Britain will remain neutral in the event of war between Japan and America (Japan probably given a “free hand” against Germany).

ONCKEN, “PRE-HISTORY OF THE WAR”

Ibidem Hermann Oncken, “Pre-History of the War”.

pp. 475-77: In 1898 Britain and Germanywere negotiating an alliance against Russia(The Saturday Review threatened that thepeople would settle accounts with the dynastyif it allied itself with Germany!!). No agree-ment was reached: Britain said: “Germanydemands too much” (477). This, author claims,is not true, Berlin made no demands (?!!?).A treaty was concluded only in October1898, and it ‘ envisaged German and Britisheconomic penetration into the Portuguesecolonies in the event of Portugal not fulfillingher obligations in regard to loan payments”(477).
N.B.gem!
In October 1898 Great Britain and Germany were dividing Portugal’s colonies. B
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