THEN AND NOW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1940, Page 9

THEN AND NOW

EFFRONTERY OF MODERN NAZISM. As showing the utter effrontery and complete unscrupulousness of modern Nazism by comparison with the Prussianism of 1914, the Marquess of Crewe recalls that when Sir Edward Grey's efforts for a conference failed in July, 1914, and hostilities began, the tone of the German spokesman was apologetic. In the Reichstag on August 4, 1914, the German Chancellor said: “We are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law ... a French movement upon our flank on the lower Rhine might have been disastrous, so we were compelled to over-ride the just protests of the Luxemburg and Belgian Governments. The wrong—l speak openly—that we are committing we will endeavour to make good as soon as our military goal has been reached.” Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg no doubt spoke honestly, says the Marquess of Crewe, and he probably lamented the atrocities which disfigured the occupation of Belgium. But to his successors in Berlin today this would read as mawkish stuff, for to the Nazi mind to speak right and wrong in such a connection would be as meaningless as to speak of blue and green. Thus we note a progressive decline in the character of German policy. .

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