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ANTI-ENGLISH FEELING This country has always found a
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card in Dr. Goebbels's propagandist special difficulty in coming to hand is still encirclement. When in understanding with Germany. She doubt he plays "Einkreisung." always assumes that we should pay
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So it was, though not to the same heavily in economic and territorial extent, in the years before the concessions for the honour of be- Great War. The word was a favour- ing understood. Great Britain was ite with von Buelow when he was also expected before the war to be Office—I woul anxious about the growing repug- ready, in return for a modicum of day-penned a nance among the German people, at German acquiescence, to discard despatch from the time of the Zabern incident, to her ententes with France and Rus- Berlin contain the jack-booted arrogance of Prus- sia. Sir Edward Grey in vain ex- tart reproofs f sian militarism,
plained that Britain's friendships Prussia, who Mr. Gerard, American Ambassa- were not exclusive. Germany offer- England as an dor to Berlin, wrote in 1914: “I am ed only the choice between "the be: .convinced that the fear of war, in- torrid and the frigid zone." As for
"When Ge duced by hereditary instinct, caus- her demands even Lord Salisbury, ed the mass of Germans to become one of the old school, could not re- the tools and dupes of those who frain in a letter from using the played on this fear to create a mili- ugly word "Blackmail.” tary autocracy."
In 1899 Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, The German suffers from clau- fresh from strophobia, and a claustrophobe Kaiser at Windsor, publicly cannot distinguish between the gested an alliance with Germany. open door and the shut. They are A few days later von Buelow in the all shut to him. Nor can you argue Reichstag tossed the offer back him out of his delusion.
with contumely. Why? Because, as. he wrote at the time in a memoran-
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out of hand a the pace of B tion was slack to Germany to man pace was They believed pro and that we
"On the whole it is certain that opinion in England is far less anti-German than opinion in Germany is anti-English." Unhappily, that remained
ways been encircled. He is sand- wiched between the Latin and the Slav, and is equally unloved by and uncomfortable with either. In Roose. veltian idiom he does not find it easy to be a "good neighbour."
The ex-Kaiser himself busily pro- foundly true right down to 1914, to Dreadnoug pagated this myth of encirclement and for that reason no genuine un- and specially attributed to his un- derstanding was possible. The Kai- cle, Edward VII, a diabolical in- ser himself blew hot and cold, but
In his book
Grey doubts a Government
genuity in its pursuit, which ac- his periods of sulky ill-will were the theory of cording to the express testimony more durable than his spasms of of his three Prime Ministers he cordiality. He could be treacher-
which they ha neither practised nor possessed. ous as in the terrible
encouraged it, Willy-Nicky In his Memoirs the Kaiser, gree- letters: he could be venomous as
German arma: dily accepted the fantastic story of in the marginal notes
himself had..... which he a Secret Gentleman's
encirclement I Agreement scribbled on official despatches re- between Great Britain, France and lating to England.
out blow whe the United States whereby they
many's full a NAVAL RIVALRY pledged themselves in 1897 to at-
broke the pub A naval agreement with England annexing Bos tack either Germany or Austria if on terms which substantiated the either went to war for the sake of official German
The acceptą Pan-German ideals or policies. The peated ad nauseam in defiance of for the Teuto explanation—re of the fait ac Foreign Office, the Quai d'Orsay, all the evidence that the German it was and Washington knew nothing of High Sea Fleet was not being built Tsarist Gover a P it. But for German propagandist against England would, I believe, nor forgave. purposes it was constantly resus- have indefinitely postponed the the next insol citated. Dr. Goebbels had many Great War. That was Grey's great they were res nimble forerunners.
hope. He failed because a German arms. The Franco-Russian Alliance High Sea Fleet which might suc- through the " The T certainly exposed Germany to the cessfully challenge, at the optimum Balkan Front danger, which she still dreads moment, the British Grand Fleet, great hole in most, of a war on two fronts, and was the constant dream of the au- For a Powe Berlin was constantly intriguing thor and begetter of the two great to be encircled as she had every right to do to German Naval Laws.
.contrived to 1
break it up. Yet that Alliance was Dr. Goebbels should re-read von tonishing adv only the French and Russian reply Tirpitz's Memoirs, in which he ence was dom to the Triple Alliance of Germany, pours forth his deep and everlast- ple, which the Austria, and Italy. If the one was ing laments and his curses on the protector not a vile encirclement, why not the ineptitude of Chancellor Bethmann- Sultan whose other? Because Germans belleve in Hollweg who allowed the war to throughout th one code for the foreigner and an- come on before the High Sea Fleet of the Armen other for themselves.
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