To the Editor of the "Noeta-Carxa Datty News."
Sin,—We are indebted to Mr. Cloudesley Brereton, ™.4., Inspector in Modern Languages to the London County Council, for one of the best and cheapest books on the war. It in entitled "Who is responsible 1" and is published at sevenpence by Messrs. Harrop, Portsmouth Street, Kingsway, London, W. C. to look first to be crushed. Then Russia. Then by means of the indemnities procured from these conquests, after some years of recuperation and effort, the naval power of England was to be challenged and destroyed. This programme was set forth by high authorities, and was generally accepted. There was no criticism and no demur.
The crime against the civilization of the world foreshadowed in the horrible words. France is to be crushed," is re a high tribunal. It would be idle to discuss it here, what happened is this: The French and Russian part of the Programme was put into action last July.
England, who had been told that her turn was not yet and that Germany would be ready for her in a matter of five or ten years, very naturally refused to wait her turn. She crowded up on to the scaffold, which even now is in peril of breaking down under the weight of its victims; and of burying the executioner in its ruins. But because England would not wait her turn, she is overwhelmed with accusas of treachery and inhumanity by sincerely indignant Germany. Could stupidity, the stupidity of the wise men of Gotham, be more at things for a moment from the German standpoint. From her geographical position Germany iz specially open to foreign attack, She is the strongest and best organiz nation in Europe. Yet she med in by a ring of small and is refused permission to pand. efforts to secure a footing in Asia Minor, Brazil, Morocco, the Philippines, the Transvaal and Walfach Bay, South Africa, have all alike been frustrated. Two of the principal seaports which she uses, Antwerp and Rotterdam, are outside her own borders, and all her trade routes, except those to Northern Europe, are commanded by Great Britain. The people have also long been living in terror of Russia, and have long recognized that an awfu' struggle between Slav and Teuton would almost certainly come.
Lastly, Germany's childish ar-romance must not blind us to her In the realms of music, philosophy and pure science, the whole world is under infinite obligation to her. And there are things more exclusively German which are worthy of unstinted admiration. This people's untiring industry, for instance, their prodigious thoroughness, their unbounded belief in knowledge; and
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