Zukunft" he say:
"Let us drop our miserable attempts to excuse Germany's ction, Let us have done with paltry abuse of the enemy. Not against our will and asa nation taken by surprise, did we hurl ourselves into this gigantic venture. We willed it: etd il We do not stand fore the judgement-seat of Europe; we knowledge 0 auch junediction. Our might shall create a new Europe. "It in Germany that strikes When she hus conquered new domains fo her genius then the priesthoods of all the gods will praise the good war. Germany is not making this war to punish ners, ut to free oppressed peoples, and then to rust in the consciousness of achievements entitle her to demand more elbow-room on earth and wider outlets
struck, und she must place as for act Now Germany's hour bes the leading Power. She is fighting for herself alone, and yet she is such that all men who desire the good of the world will rejoice in the result."
That view has at least the merit of being honest. But, even one vould suppose that Prussianism had much opinion of the value of honesty for its own sake, it is plain that Dr. von Bethmuon Holtweg could never afford to take this tone. We do not underrate the spirit with which Ger-mang en masse are tweing this terrific wer. But it is none the less clear that what the German Government is fighting for is not the advantage of the German people, which was far better served by peace, but the retention of its own ascendancy. Defeat for Germany means the overthrow of Kaiserism, itariam, worship of the uniform, all the privilege and pleasant adulation on which the ruling classes have thrived in Germany for at the expense of ci ties. That is why the ment continues to make fresh and ever increasing demands of the country, while it caresses the people with imaginary tales of German victory and i them with no less imaginary tales of foreign aggression. The real cause of the hatred for Great Britain felt by Germany's rulers is, of course, as different from what Dr. von Rethmann Hollweg pretends, as his own account of
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