The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914. IN THE UNITED STATES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 54, 30 October 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914. IN THE UNITED STATES.

According to the Berlin correspondent of the, New York Times, America's sympathy was absolutely counted upon in Germany when the war began. "Its absence," we are told, "is the cruellest disappointment the Kaiser's Government has so far suffered." It seems hardly credible that the Kaiser expected active assistance, but he and the militarists confidently looked for moral support. New York (the Auckland Star points out) sets the tone for the Vnited States in matters other than of local interest, and New York, whose aristocracy is of Dutch origin, seemed likely to respond to the appeal of Pan-Teutonism. Then a large Teu. tonic element has been imported into the country direct from Germany by the thousands of German immigrants who have settled in the States. They have supplied it with some of its most influential citizens, and in several districts and towns they outnumber the Americans of British descent, and they own many newspapers. Germany has also been one of the favorite haunts of the American tourist, and the favourite school of its students of every kind. On the other hand, there was until recently occasional friction between the Americans and the English, and an occasional remembrance of the War of Independence. But if the Kaiser reckoned in this crisis upon old grievances, he was several years behind the times, for they have been all but effaced recently by the spreading of the Pan-British movement throughout America, marked especially by the celebration of the hundred years of peace between the two nations. Not all even of the German Americans favour military Kaiserdom, for large numbers left the Fatherland ou purpose to escape it and the whole absolutist regime. These will cherish a sentiment for Germany, but at the same time they abhor the military autocracy.