GERMAN POLICY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 16, 19 May 1915, Page 4

GERMAN POLICY.

Dr. Holland Rose contributes an article to the Fortnightly on “Brit-j ish and German Policy,” in the course ( of which he shows hy historical re-j ferences that the spirit which now ( animates Germany is derived mainly j from the exploits of Frederick the j Great, and aims at achieving the, world-triumphs for which' Napoleon the, Great staked his all. “If Frederick! the Great, with his weak and strag-, gling domains, could triumph over j three powerful neighbours, each of which surpassed Prussia in wealth and population, what might not be effected hy the solid mass of the German Empire closely allied with Austria, and confident in the support of the Moslem world.” That, according to Dr. Rose, was the thought underlying German aggressiveness. He adds, significantly, that “it must be remembered that her tactics have hitherto always won the day for “Prussia,” hut he goes on to show that the thinkers and statesmen have not appreciated the enormous difference between their present enterprise against the three resolute Powers and the earlier efforts which brought her to supremacy in Central Europe.