English Translation

-24- VII. Through my speech of April 2nd, 1918, the stone had been forced to roll, uhd Clemenceau, with the fact of the emperor's letters and the imperial disinterest in Alsace-Lorraine known to him, but unknown to me. The question, which seems to me to be of minor importance to me, which has taken the initiative to negotiate Revertera-Armand, concerns which Clemenceau put a great weight to at that time, so I can only repeat what was quoted higher in the letter of Revertera to Berchtold. Since the first suggestion was based on the French Minis- ters. Revertera, like me, had then tried everything that the woven thread did not definitely detract, and so the negotiations continued; whether Clemenceau knew of the last discussion of the two gentlemen, which was still held under his regime, or not, was unknown to me. Ieh, therefore, gladly admits that my earlier citated examination of the 2nd century AD. April: "Clemen- ceau had asked us," was incorrect; not Clemenceau, but his predecessor, had asked - according to the letters of Revertera. I had made this mistake because, as I said, I looked at the question from a very different angle of my face: it was not about who had started, why had been interrupted; I did not attach any particular importance to the surrounding of the initiative. VIII. Shortly before Élemenceau's publications ripped the veil and forced me to definitely clarify the question of a non-official secondary policy, 208