FLAMING HATRED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 8, 11 January 1915, Page 7

FLAMING HATRED.

GERMAN ANIMOSITY TO ENC LAND. The intense animosity displayed in the German press and by German writers towards Great Britain and the passionate hatred for this country to which many public writers give ven, deserve to be studied in England. At article by Werner Sombart, which ha.appeared in the Berliner Tageblatt, i> a fair sample of what is being said an, thought in Germany at the presem

time, I The writer, discussing Germany’: enemies, says that the small nation may be put on one side. In his per sonal opinion the “kingdom of Monte negro” is nothing hut a had joke in tin history of the world. In Belgium In sees a miscarriage of policy, and tin Belgian nationality makes- him laugh He is sorry for them. Serbians am Japanese give him a feeling of aversion The Japanese, whose acquaintance In made in his capacity of professor, In does not recognise as human beings One does not hate them, as one does not hate the dog which goes for us in tin stheets. i But with the French, British am Russians things are different. Agains the French population he says then is less aversion or hatred. On tin whole, w“e have nothing against tin French, but they have much against us They are chivalrous adversaries, win are our equals in their passion of battle ,'They are dying for their Fatherland I 'and the main reason for their fighting | is an ideal. With the heroic French * people we feel a kind of pity as with a mortally wounded deer.” | Also towards the Russians, sayHerr Sombart, there is no real hatred 'But with the English it is different . II esays:—

“[ am quite sure that the whole German people, from the last taxi-driver to the highest official, are at one in then flaming hatred towards the English, In England wo feel our enemy. We are waging the war against England. We sh ill not consider the war terminated till England lies at our feet crushed and hum bed in her innermost consciousness.

! “I believe that if England were I granted an honorable peace even the 'quiet German people would be driven (into revolution. I have never seen ii I the Germans so much passionate feeline las at present if the word England i | uttered.” i As reasons for this hatred the writer cites:— I “The treason of our cousins’ agn.-nst ns, the instinctive tendency of British policy to lying, the ostentatious saynothing manner and boastfulness of the British press, the open display of contempt for the ‘poor relation.’ ” All these reasons, however, the writer describes as of secondary importance, He continues:—

“The main reason is that the spor tan coils hatred towards England is rooted in the deepest depths of our ov u reason do not count, where the ‘ir-hei-ig, there where considerations of rational,’ the instinct, alone.dominates. We hate in the English the hostile principle of our innermost and highest nature. And it is well that we are fully aware of this, because we touch with this the vital meaning of this war.”