GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

Otaki Mail, 5 November 1923, Page 4

GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

INCREASING HATRED. A German with whom I have had some conversation assured me, "The cry of ‘Gott strafe England’ is coming l back.” This may be an exaggeration, S but the fact remains that the German I mental attitude towards this country ! is undergoing a swift and remarkable , 1 change, says a London correspondent. | Foreign diplomats ancl private ob- | servers in Berlin agree that German ' public opinion has turned. The Ger- i man believes that he has been “let I down,” and that Great Britain has.' failed to “redeem her promises.” For i German diplomacy - and the German Press have all these years managed | to discover in every act oFthe British j Government a promise of assistance i against France. Nothing that has ' • been done here, either privately or officially, could destroy this illusion. The Marquis Curzon and his collaborators, in their conversations with Herr Sthamer, the German Ambassador, have explained repeatedly, and - with uncompromising clarity, the real state of affairs. But all without avail. It is only now that the German mind is swinging back to an exact j comprehension of the situation. The | reaction from a great hope unfulfilled j may be the most natural explanation for the neiv “Gott strafe England” j attitude, the exigence of which is now’ j reported from many quarters. The j German Socialists have chosen our ! Ambassador in Berlin as the pet ob- ! ject for their attacks; they ascribe to ! him the policy which Herr Cuno has i so steadfastly pursued all through !'• these months. There is some amuse- | ment to be derived from tv e fact that | the hate for England, which in the war was propagated by the extremists of the Hight, is now being developed by the moderates, and even more by the extremists of the Left.