THE GERMAN’S MISTAKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1915, Page 4

THE GERMAN’S MISTAKE.

The member of no English family ai'e apt not only to see each other’s faults, but to speak of them before strangers, so that a stranger unused to this habit might think that they had no love for each other, says the Times. They themselves take their love for granted, and do not care what strangers may think about it. And as it is with the family so it is with the country. A stranger comes among us, and we tell him all that we dislike about England. T\ e have no domestic caution or sense of propriety in this matter. TVe point ‘out to him how badly things are managed here, and speak of England as if it were an inefficient railway on which we have the misfortune to travel. And he, if he happens to be an industrious Gorman, takes notes of all our complaints for future patrotic use. He thinks that they are dragged out of us by our unwilling sense of German superiority. He, even if he comes to England for his pleasure, is always a traveller for his country; and in England he is aware of no country, but only of a general discontent and indiscipline and disorder. There are Englishmen, he notes, but no England; nothing but a crowd of individuals who do not even pretend to think well of each other, and who would surely bo happier and better men under German rule.