GERMAN OR ANTI-GERMAN?

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2727, 23 March 1916, Page 7

GERMAN OR ANTI-GERMAN?

Sir, —A certain gentleman's . defence of .himself, that appeared in your paper this (Tuesday) morning, bears all too plainly the Machiavellian hall-mark of der Faderland to be taken holus bolus, for, paradoxically, a Gorman is never more your enemy than when ho is your friend. It has been found _ that hypocrisy's the watchword, deceit the practice'of the alien suspect; and.in our gullibility these black arts find their play. I know a German who walks his children out with a little "Union Jack apiece; and in this glorification of England abroad -lie is deemed a prodigy of British loyalty, for no voice is louder than his in public, "Himah for our King"; but in the privacy of home lie drinks "Hoch!" to the Kaiser, curses our "nation in unprintable language, justifies the sinking of the Lnsitania, and, in a word, acts as every German does. This is illustrative, insomuch that lie has been under civil suspicion, but cleverly rehabilitated himself with tho same subtle argument that marks the defence of the one who tore the pamphlets last Friday in Newtown Park.

My risibility'is tickled at.the thought of the insult (?) to the Belgian and British Royal fnmilies as a result of a very proper exclusion of all sons of Germans in places of trust—none hnt a fool would trust them! And King: Albert of the Belgians is neither destitute in reason nor lacking in memory. In conclusion, let me remark that though all fair-minded folk admit that a question is never one-sided, some are apt to forget there is only ono truth, and if there is a thing a German knows how to pervert, it is this great fundamental law of honesty.—l am, etc.. ■ TRUE BLUE.