COUNT BERNSTORFF AS A "PLAGIARIST"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2391, 22 February 1915, Page 9

COUNT BERNSTORFF AS A "PLAGIARIST"

THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN AMERICA. The most unhappy man in America to-' day (wrote the London "Telegraph" correspondent recently) is Count Bernstorff, the German Ambassador. His troubles began when Herr Dernburg arrived from Berlin to aid him in presenting the Kaiser's "case" to tho American people. 'Count Bernstorff signally failed to achieve success singlehanded, and, as running mate with the. former Minister of the Colonies, he has been just as much a failure. Tho climax of his missionary career came when every leading paper in America devoted great space to an article reproduced from the "Nation/' showing that a celebrated oration Count Bernstorff recently delivered on "The Development of Germany as a World Power —considered in America as tie diplomatist's most notable specch—was really a series of extracts from a book by Sir. TV. H. Dawson, called "The Evolution; of Modern Germany." _• It is bad enough, from the American standpoint, to filch a man's brains without a word of acknowledgment, but in this case the Count's offence is the more strongly resented seeing- that he _ delivered the oration before the American Academy of Political Science. Now sarcastic critics ara suggesting that Count Bemstorff's ideas regarding the integrity of private property are no better than his master's, and that we should blame his employer at least as much as the servant. TJp to the present Count Bernstorff has offered no defence of h:s notion.. To quote an expressive Americanism, "he lias been caught with the goods," aild it is difficult to see what' ho could say by way of defence.