From The Truth about the Treaty by André Tardieu

. . . All Germany, on August 2, 1914, is up and ready for the work of death. The Imperial Chancellor; . . . has risen without effort to the level of German tradition to lay down the principle of "Necessity" and in consequence to assert ; "We were obliged to disregard the justified protests of Belgium and Luxemburg." The Reichstag's answer ? A unanimous vote of approval ! Liebknecht himself—who will regret only later—is at one with Reventlow. The entire Socialdemokratie suddenly discovers on this national occasion that it has a Pan-German soul. Nor does it take pains to "verify reports."* Light-heartedly it breaks the pledge which its envoy Muller had brought to the French Socialists on July 31 ; it wipes away the kiss of Judas which in Brussels on the same day Haase had given to Jaurès.

    * On alleged provocations by the French. — (WPT).

New York : Bobbs-Merril, 1921.page 26.