At least this would appear at present to be his intention, judging by the published Berlin dispatch in the Cologne Gazette, which declares that nobody acquainted with the difficulties of foreign affairs in war—one coalition against another—could see in the Chancellor's refusal to commit himself either to an imperialist program of conquest or to the Socialist plan of renunciation, evidence of weakness, and that the Chancellor, confident that the great majority of Germans are with him, will continue to follow his old course, not yielding to the pressure of the right or left.
It remains to be seen how far he can adhere to this determination against the steadily waxing pressure, if not from the general public, the Cologne Gazette continues, then at least from organized parliamentary opinion and an aggressive purposeful newspapers of all parties, except the center which has, notwithstanding earlier financial declarations of Independence, forced the Chancellor to tear off one veil after another from his peace concept and expose its form to the public eye.
The discussions on Thursday by the Reichstag committee of the Belgian parliament, for example, probably revealed to the members considerably more of Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's program for Belgium than appears in the newspaper. The reports of the sitting, which, as usual, were censored by both the chairman and representatives of its administration before their publication, show, however, that Vice Chancellor I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Served with no postulation to a discussion by radical representatives of the separation of Belgium into Flemish and Walloon states, as the sole way to the German goal.
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