THE TREATMENT OF ALIENS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1919, Page 2

THE TREATMENT OF ALIENS.

(To tho Editor.) Sir,—"G.H.M.," in a letter on the above, . says that it is wrong to pretend the world can go on satisfactorily if wo shut out seventy million of intelligent, industrious, and enterprising Germans from a due share and profit needed to maintain and extend our modern civilisation. Allowing that the Cermans are "intelligent, industrious, and enterprising," wo liavo had ample proof that they are also God-less, treacherous, profligate, and bar- : barlously crue. What is the Germans' Idea of civilisation? The crushing and extermination of the British Empire with the substitution of German rule. Beforo tho war they used their intelligence in spying and planning al! over the world, and their Industry in tho manufacture of deadly war materials, and their enterprise in undermining our trade and stirring up internal strife in our Empire so that when they struck they mignt paralyse and crush us utterly Thero are mnnv in this country who during the past few years 1 liavo been in close touch with the Germans, and so had a very good chance of judging their points. There are also many . who . count themselves fortunate, and are to be envied in having been Instrumental in putting a few of these intelligent, industrious, and 1 surprisingly enterprising gentleman where ' such qualities are not generally supposed to be In great demand. There also appear to be . a few high-niintled, unselfish, "forget and forgive" type of gentlemen about who think with "G.H.M." about tho treatment Germans should receive, and it should give them u lot of satisfaction to feel how different they are from the ordinary ruck. In reply to' < "GHM.'s" finishing query re tho German Hymn of Hate, we did not condemn it, never i heard it anything but laughed at. Wo are ' not making or singing Hymns of Hate, but , we. that is most of us, prefer to keep a certain class of people, however industrious and enter- ' , prising they may be, at arm's length. "G.H.M." seems to think we ought to hug them.—l am, , etc., w.w.s. New Plymouth, Nov. 20, 1919.