The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1914. THE TEUTONIC RACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 86, 1 August 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1914. THE TEUTONIC RACE.

The German Ambassador at London, Prince Lichnowsky, speaking at a, dinner after receiving the D.C.L. degree of Oxford, said:—"Great events , have happened during these hundred years. But the goal towards which the British and the German peoples were aiming in those stormy times, after years of fighting, and which is still their aim to-day, in the unclouded atmosphere of civic progress, lias remained the same. Then, as now, our monarchs joined hands to maintain peace, and to protect civic industry. Then, us now, both British and German policies were in agreement in the endeavor to secure for their peoples the blessings of undisturbed intellectual and economic development. The period of intellectual development and literary growth had preceded the period of political progress, and the mighty awakening of Germany to the consciousness of her nationality. The more German science and literature ere studied in. Britain, and British science and literature in Germany, the more will the intellectual possessions and values of both nations become their common property, and both nations be drawn nearer to one another in their inner lives. The foundation of a mutual appreciation by the possession of tUo same ideals aud a

community of culture and ethics, will be widened, and in this way the universities will also help forward political aims. I regret sincerely that I had not the privilege of studying here myself, but I hope to make up for it by letting my sons keep some terms. Cecil Rhodes recognised the compatibility of British and Germaa political needs; he recognised that there was a place in the sun for both, and he was further convinced of the near relationship of British and German culture, I may say of their mutual completion. He was of opinion that the whole community would be best served if the Teutonic peoples were brought nearer together, and would join hands for the purpose of spreading their civilisation to distant regions."