ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1097, 17 September 1912, Page 4

ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Mr Sidney Whiteman, in the course of an article in the Fortnightly Review on “The AngloGerman Mirage” gives a great deal of good advice to the people of Britain and Germany respectively, and assures both countries that if they persist in their present provocative attitudes towards each other the result will be “moral and material catastrophe,” Mr Whiteman is severely critical in reviewing British policy towards Germany. He deplores “tne peremptory attitude we took up towards Germany in the summer of 19 1 x, ” declaring that it neutralised the activity of the peacefully-in-clined German Radical and Socialist parties. He urges the British people to “beware of rousing the ‘furor Teutonicus’ unless we are willing to light up Europe in a blaze of bloodshed,” but Mr Idoyd George’s “Cabinet of Nations” speech was presumably not delivered without full deliberation, and it certainly represented the considered view of the nation at the time. This contributor blames thoughtless speakers and writers in England for supplying material to the war party in Germany. He blames the “armor-plate press” in Germany—the organs of the manufacturers ol war equipment—and also the mass of retired naval and military officers, who fan the flames, of chauvinism from their professional proclivities, for accent ing a demand for bigger and bigger armaments. Mr Sidney Whiteman offers eloquent warnings to both countries. It is to be feared that where passions and prejudices are so deeply involved the voice of the Warner is tbe voice of one crying in the wilderness.