MAN WITH THE MEAN MIND.
King 10dward is reported to have said that the Kaiser was not a gentleman, a matter on i which his Majesty was as good a judge as could Ik* found. The latest of many actions that could he* cited in support of this estimate is the conferment hy tin* Kaiser of the Red Kagle on the author of the notorious “Hymn of Hale.” A similar incident could not arise in Kngland, because no Knglishman would write such verses, and King (leorge would not dream of decorating him if he did. The blind, hitter, . and ferocious hatred , expressed in the verses, is very different from the righteous indignation that moves Britons. But unchivalrous as the verses are, they are less so than the action of the Kaiser in decorating the man who wrote them. It is the mark of a mean mind, (In* Christchurch Press concludes.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 4
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150MAN WITH THE MEAN MIND. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 4
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