Germany still looks to the East, notwithstanding the fact that it was the Drang nach Osten which impelled her to precipitate the European var. To-day she confines her statements on the subject of her longing for the Fast to commercial sibilities, but it is almost worth noting the unanimity there is on the part of German politicians and merchants that the Fast, especially the Far East, has been specially marked out: for German exploitation. One of the last interviews Dr. Walter Rathenau gave before his assassination dealt with the goodwill of the people of Japan and China towards Germany, his belief in the enormous chances lying before German business men in these particular fields, and he gave the impression that they had been created for that very purpose. The} fact of the matter is that for every country possessing business ability, tireless energy and patience there is a big future in the Far East. for its possibilities are: not nearly exhausted. And, of course. Germany shares in those possibilities just as does any other country. Tt is difficult, however. to get hold! of the reasons for believing that the Far Nast is a kind of heaven-sent field for German endeavour, as seems to be suggested. It is very much on the lines of that monopoly of the deity of which we! used to hear so much, "Our good old German God" and the like.
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