The Archive · 1915

Who Rules the Fatherland

To the Editor of the Norti-Cutna Darty News."

Sim,—Two years ago, when Mr. Price Collier wrote "Germany and Germans, from an American point of view," (Duckworth 9s. 6d. net), he was a fervent admirer of the Emperor Wilhel ind with childlike simplicity said, "The English are thoroughly and com-plotely mistaken about his attitude towards them. He is far and away the best and most powerful friend they have in Europe." Yet Mr. Collier himself lays stress on the German Emperor's uncontrolled power over his people.

"The casual observer of life in England," he says "would find himself forced to write of sport, even as in India he would write of caste, and as in America he would note the undue emphasis laid on politics, In Germany, wherever he turns, he finds himself face to face with the Emperor. There is no such thing in

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