GERMANY ATTACKED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 29 October 1912, Page 4

GERMANY ATTACKED.

The great German journalist, Maximilian Harden, who has just published a book in which he charges King Edward with having created "an antiGerman trust," is not afraid to tell his countrymen what ho thinks iof them, even though he accuses them ,>f some of the faults which he himself commits. In a recent issue of his paper he attacks Germany's world-po-licy, asserting that it is arrogant, stupid, and dangerous. He condemns the German press "with its cold oonceit of the parvenu and its arrogance towards the foreigner," and alleges that it is the- cause of Germany losing reputation everywhere; "The English are treated as bluffers* the French as trivial humbugs; the Italians as pirates and liars; and the Yankees a* thieves. Not a day passes -without) coarse and ineffective insults flung ab everything foreign, while the Germans lirag of themselves as il«« •»• unit

only people in the work!." In a series of tellingjSentenoeß ho points out how German policy has alienated the<

friendship of Kurope and America. "Is the world going to grow tired ol it," he asks, "and regret that it did not crush Germany in the egg. If Germany stayed quiet, the peaceful nations surrounding it would havo no need to gird up their loins." Which has tjeen said before, but not in the same i quarter.