American View of the British Government

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 August 1916, Page 2

American View of the British Government

«, — The English Renew for June reprints what it truly call* a reinarltable articleon the British Government which appearcil in Flic Xow York Tribune on A fay Ist. It severely critical, us may he judged from thefollowing quotations: The whole atmosphere of London today is an atmosphere of unreality, of apprehension, and of a nation wandering in darkness, coseious that itis leaders are .shams that it has neither statesmen nor generals. Tlie Allies may win the war. and yet I'.uglnnd may fail to readjust herself, to find herself. The odds against Germany are great, hut the thing that every fi ii nd of 'England must feel is that without a readjustment, without som.-tinng that approximates to a revolution. that sweeps out of office and out of puhliV life the little men with their fluent speeeli and their purblind eyes, their elegant phrases and exquisite verLal regard for the moralities of ■life. England w : ll end the war in worse shape than a beaten Germany, than France ravaged from the Marne to the Jloselle. and numbering her dead bv the hundred thousand. The French expeot to win the war, but they expect to win it by hard j fighting, by terrible sacrifices, and they recegirse at all times that the Germans "are skilful, brave, strong. -Rut the British press and the F!rit>'i public seem f?till to believe that war will lie won by a mirae'e because the Germans are wicked : that God will do for tlie English what they have not done for themselves: that Germany is going to curl up and go to deep damnation of a sudden beeau.se of the wickedness, tlie essential sinfulness of "(Tie Hun."