"THE FIVE ENGLANDS"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 34, 3 November 1917, Page 8

"THE FIVE ENGLANDS"

A GERMAN PEACE HOMILY. (Bv Frederic' William Wile, in the. "Daily Mail.") There are "fivo Dnglands," according to Professor Dr. Forster, a Berlin pacifist and Free Trade theorist of "democratic" propensities, who has begun a series of articles in the Liberal-Radical "Daily Paper" ("Tageblatt") on "Germanv and England." They are in the nature of comment on a recent Journalistic controversy between Dr. Priedrich Naumann (the "Central Europe" apostle) and Prince Lichnowsky, late German Embassador to Great Britain. Discussin" future relations between the Huns and the British and the best way to "approach" their Te-establishment, Forster says: "It is regrettable that we have so manv 'practical politicians' who know nothing of England. What these and others need to understand is that there are to-day, so to speak, fivo Englands. First, Imperial England, which was finished with the Boer War and to-day eniovs an existence only in the Nortnchlto Press, but isi no longer a political factor; second, the England of Lloyd George, which does not wish to' 'conquer, but wants to master the •Prussian war god."': third the England of Lord. Balfour |the German Press conferred a peerage, on Mr Balfour manv :*ears ago], that is, statesmanlike England, which is not influenced by show effects and does not indulge in demagogue oratory, but seoKs only to establish order in the world, though, of course, on lines of its own! fourth, the England of the 'Manchester Guardian,' of commercial exporting England, which /represents the soberthinking class of great merchants and which knows that nobody of good sense wants to kill his b?st customer. The 'Manchester Guardian' also seems to be satisfied with autonomy for Alsace-Lor-raine, and thus makes us more coiicesBions than Lord Balfour. In the Manchester Guardian' ono finds leading articles animated by the calmest and most respectable tono towards Germany. Fifth, pacifist England, which has little influence, notwithstanding the very eminent men, including some m the House of Lords, who belong to it. An intelligent statesman must proceed on the Sy that ™ should bring England Nos 3, •*. and ate our s,de ' °P.,' however, after a long series of mistakes and omissions, we have done nothing but excite 3 i, and 5 against 1 and iTherein lies the kernel of the situation. Professor Forster's diverting homily concludes with the query: 'How are we o come nearer to the best and most sensib e portions of the English nation? He th nfe Germany's best plan is to.use the "t Wal as to "peace or'longing for peace" and recognise that the. best way to "approach" the question is to "attempt to freach a.i. understanding with the Entente regarding he fund*mental principles of international order after the war!" All this m plan. English means "eve-wash.