UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR
HUNS THREATEN AN AWFUL REVENGE. Never again after the war shall the students of foreign countries visit the technical schools and universities of Germany, sa.vs the "Tag:"— "We were once so ready to share the products of German progress with foreign countries. We did it not only from our inherent friendliness and hospitality, but from practical considerations also. Wo believed that in this way we should open a path in the -world for Gorman thought when educated representatives of foreign countries saw what Germany could do and how far we had gone in all the spheres of knowledge, technical skill, chemistry, agriculture, and social science. We cherished tlie hope that the foreigners who came here would be grateful for our hospitality and the rich stores of knowledge which wc so willingly gave them, and would return to their homes with increased respect and sympathy for Germany. . . . Wo know what sort of gratitude we have to expect from foreign countries for our generous behaviour. Where were all the Russians, Japanese, English, and French, Americans, Rumanians, and Greeks who have enjoyed the hospitality of our high schools when German methods were libelled in a most horrible fashion in their countries? Why did they not in the name of truth and righteousness make a protest? Why did they not reply to the cry of German barbarism bv showing hoiv nobly they wero received in Germany and what rich treasures of German culture they took away? . . . But we have tho power to pay them back. We can very well do without foreign knowledge, but the world cannot do without German knowledge. And so the true answer to a hostile world outside would bo to shut it out of German high schools and universities for a generation. And let us establish the same, rule for tho neutral countries which have shown their ill-will to us so e.lcarly." '
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2654, 28 December 1915, Page 9
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314UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2654, 28 December 1915, Page 9
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