A PATHETIC PROPOSAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1627, 21 October 1916, Page 4

A PATHETIC PROPOSAL.

“The most pathetic thing in the world just now,” says the New York Tribune, “is the German who wants to see the war end and have everything forgiven and forgotten.’’ He naturally doesn’t believe what the Englishman knows to he true ahout the German actions in Belgium and France. He cannot he expected to look upon things from the English point of view, hut what he does not realise is the existence of an English point of view. He doesn’t realise that years and years will pass before the Englishman, because this is his habit, will get over regarding the German as ho now regards him. Here, then, arc some forty millions of men and women and children who hold with an ialensilv that cannot he described and for reasons that are a part of their human experience, of their personal sorrow and suffering, certain feelings toward the German, have acquired a haired which, if it is not exactly vindictive, actually bars the way to all possible friendly relation for many years to come. And, on the other hand, here is Professor Munsferberg preaching about an Anglo-German-American alliance! At all events, let us hope that the United Elates will not become the ally of Germany before Great Britain does. That will give us all time to prepare for it. Ami (hi* British Ministry that first proposes (hat alliance to the British people is going to have an interesting experience."