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- 15 - otherwise I would foresee that I would directly pmo- strategize the enunciation that took place through this word Clemenceau and the discovery of his secret letters. When the rumors of our imminent separation from Deutachland appeared again and again, in the spring of 1918, I developed to the emperor again how war-extending this tactic - to leave the ta de e dr d cr d nistreüre in order to give in to Berlin, were we in the opposite waterway, awakened in Paris the hope of our waste and the blasting of unaeres Bündniesee - and scattered in Ber-lin mistrust, which left us without any influence. The emperor admitted this, and we advised on the form to be taken to explain in a public enunciation friend and enemy that the emperor was irrevocably incorruptible, to fight for the defense of German possessions as well as for that of his own empire. Shortly before that, another discussion had taken place between Armand and Revertera, which - like the earlier ones - had gone without Reaul, because France insisted on the position of having to preserve Eless Lorraine. It was therefore decided that I should explain publicly that, after the conquest of Alsace-Lothringrn, French postulates prevented us from continuing the Pourparlere, with other words: that Karl's allegiance to the alliance was the reason for the cancelled negotiations. Ea was agreed on the second, that His Majesty n a h e h my Enunciation underscored this point of view of the celebration of Germany, which I emphasized, still the same by an eusure. My statement in this regard in his speech of April 2, 1918, read: "... Mr Clemenceau asked me some time before the beginning of the Western offensive whether I was ready to negotiate and on what basis. I replied sofért in the debate with Berlin that I was willing to do so and that I could not see any obstacle to peace vis-à-vis France as France's wish for Alsace-Lorraine. It was replied from Paris that there was no longer any way to negotiate on this Baie. There was no choice." ...... The Emperor again controlled the exact text of this passage before my speech and sanctioned it. + These discussions will be discussed later. 206