RENEGADE ENGLISHMEN.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 December 1917, Page 7

RENEGADE ENGLISHMEN.

EVEN SNEERED AT BT THE HUNS Among the myriad pens that have been dipped in gall to yillify England and distort history in the service of Germany during this war, none is more notorious than that of the British apostate Houston Stewart Chamberlain. This man, who has so dishonoured bith his own and his country’s name, has now, however, to hear himself sneered at by the German papers as “a renegade and a German of yesterday.” The “Frankfort Gazette” mocks at him for his obsequious salaaming to everything German, and assures him that it would have been more seemly for an Englishman in his painful position to -have wrapped his face in his mantle and to have held his peace during the war. ‘ 1 This dilettante and renegade has just published a new pamphlet warning Germany by the example of England against the introduction of democracy. ■ “Like all his works,” says the journal, “this new publication is well enough written, but, like them, it is, too, a flashy thing and without any deeper value. In the course of his remarks the writer allows himself to disparage the motives of certain Germans who think differently from himself. But let this renegade remember that he is not in a position to -cast reflections on the character of any German in the world, be this German who he may.” Hard must it be to be classed lower than the lowest Hun, but Herr Chamberlain has made his bed and now he must lie on it.