THE WORLD’S PRESS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 65, 16 November 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD’S PRESS.

Falsehood of German Policy. It is not in practice possible for a nation, any more than an individual, to ignore the opinion of its fellows. German policy, beginning with a selfassertion begotten of the consciousness of sudden strength, has gradually drifted into this error. Now, too late, its falsehood is being revealed. But there are some falsehoods which it is a crime against God and man to believe, and the falsehood which inspired the destruction of Rheims is one of them. It will require a far heavier atonement than a few lying excuses to obtain any sort of absolution for so heinous an offence. —Daily News. i Jettisonirg Precedent. ; Why not admit that the nations of | Europe, confronted with ultimate ne- | cessity, facing a war of self-preserva-tion as the war is undoubtedly regarded in Germany, Great Britain, and i France, have been impelled to cast i overboard consistency and precedent, . old friendships and old hatreds? An English w r riter frankly admits that, heing moved to re-read the story of the Napoleonic campaigns, he had to give it up as hopelessly confusing. Everything was wrong, the allies, the leaders, the names of battles. Why make 1 an appeal to sentiment at this most unsentimental of all professions, the business of statecraft? —Evening Post (New York).