HARDEN INDICTS GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1918, Page 6

HARDEN INDICTS GERMANY.

TWO OF THE KAISER'S SPEECHES COMPARED. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent, writing on Bth July, stated that the latest number of Maximilian Harden's Zukunft was as scathing an indictment of Germany's policy and her rulers and statesmen as has yet seen light. It was entitled "The Eternal Sickness," by which the writer means the desire for world dominion, and he clearly implies that it is Germany where the sickness is raging. Not only does Von Kuhlmann fall under Harden's scornful lash but also the Kaiser himself, in connection with whose recent outburst against the Anglo-Saxon world conception Harden recalls the contrary view expressed by the Emperor in his famous London Telegraph interview. Referring to the Kaiser's speech Harden writes:— "He did not always think thus—he who, as the son of a British woman, once, in an unhappy famous interview, declared himself England's only friend in an Anglophobe nation. In his opinion now the peoples of the world ate under the yoke of the Anglo-Saxon dominating race, for whom they are working as slaves, and the war cannot end before one of the different world conceptions, has unconditionally conquered— Prussian Germanic freedom, right, labor and morality, or Angle-Saxon idolising of money.

"Why was KuMman's speech discussed in foreign countries only with contempt and abuse; at home with fury? Because there was nothing in it which 1 convinced them of the uprightness of the author. . The restoration of Belgium to its condition of July, 1914, must be guaranteed, or the answer put off until America, England, and France have been so defeated that after a period of years they will not be able to raise themselves i and will declare themselves conquered, i Anything else is .sham-fighting. "He who loudly counts Belgium as among the hostages, that is, among the territories gained after the open declaration of war, increases thereby in foreign countries the crowds of those who do not attribute to the Prussian Germanic spirit freedom, right, honor, and moralitv." For a full .appreciation of Harden s daring, it must be remembered that his concluding five words, quoted with ironical reiteration in the course of the article, are from the Kaiser's "Two World Conceptions" speech.