THE WORLD’S PRESS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 76, 28 November 1914, Page 3

THE WORLD’S PRESS.

LEARNING THE LESSON. Many of the high hopes w ith which some ingenious idealists regard the wav now going on in Europe are probably domed to disappointment ; but it is not extravagant to hope that one, at least of them may be realised. Slowly, but surely, Germany herself is learning by terrible experience the results of blunt defiance of civilised public opinion ; we do not fancy that the end of the war will offer any inducement to any othere nation to intimate her insolent defiance of it or the no less impudent contempt with which she presumes to defend her conduct when challenged. Daily Mail. GERMANY’S AIM. Imperial Germany, it has long been seen, aimed at the hegemony of the Continent, and slowly the realisation has been forced upon Britain that her ambitions did not stop there. Bismarckian subletly would have at least refrained from openly challenging England until the rest of Europe had been subjugated. The Pan-Germanism fostered by the Kaiser and the professors has scorned to conceal the full aims of “ weltpolitik. ” In its impatience it has alarmed the world into resistance, and will learn that raw haste is half-sister to delcay—and probably closer kin to disaster, — Australasian. KEEPING THE GERMANS WARM.. . The German proas told their readehs that Mr. Churchill is to resign and Sir John .Tollicoo is to be court-martialled. They in vented an English newspepor to make it say that “ We have lost our courage which means that wo have lost all.” They put into the columns of another English journal these dark W'orJs, I “ Only the most brilliant achievement ! uf our ilectcan cancel the crushing im- | piession, but we have not the confidence I to believe such a feat.” With such j fuel is the confidence j)f_j4ie_G2£uu^