GERMANY'S SUICIDE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1592, 27 July 1916, Page 4

GERMANY'S SUICIDE.

In an article in the Nineteenth Century mid After,Mr Walter Sichel says all Germany’s policy and perversions may be summed up in one word—envy. Envy of the supreme seamanship which centuries have engendered and developed envy of that inbred genius for colonisation which in more respects than one resembles the individual genius for friendship; envy, too, be it said, of the kind of freedom which has fostered the sense of justice and of accommodation and has rendered all these faculties acceptable as well as successful. Only the most jaundiced jealousy could warp Germans into affirming that the war is a cabal to destroy German commerce. Under our “Satanic” regime is there one colony which German traders have not been free to exploit, is there one sea closed to the argosies of Hamburg? Through this war, however, Germany is herself annihilating her own swift and unparalleled progress. To please her Kaiser’s wild atavism she is ruining the fabric of the last 40 years. She is, in fact, committing suicide.