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ENGLISH AND GERMAN CONTRASTS.
TEN MONTHS IN GERMANY. blackmailing friend von Kühlemann, they Gormany a few weeks ago; butter at 25. seem to have been unwisely received. But a pound cannot be called cheap), I see no the ex-Ambassador, who is only lately signs in your streets of anything but emerging from the disgrace with which prosperity. Indeed, the contrast of your he was received--August 1914--is now, I tull shop windows and the absence of the happen to know, spreading rumours that long crowds of people with their tickets from information he receives from Eng-waiting outside the specialized shops in fish friends there really is a substantial Germany is very striking. Also remark and obstinate War Party in England, and able is the amount of German spoken in that not too much attention must be paid the street, which an ear like mine, quickly to papers like the Junchester Guardian attuned by 10 months residence in Ger- (pronounced "Gwardeean"). He is ap many, detects parently one of the most enger pence-at- any-price advocates.
MUTUAL IGNORANCE.
CHAPTER V.
LORD HALDANE.
little differences between English and German table manners,
1BY D. THOMAS CURTIN TO THE TIMES.""] The Englishman: It is never the Bri
English is very rarely heard in Gor ton, the Australian, the Canadian. the
many, and, if spoken must be under the Scotsman, or the Welshman. It is always
breath. I was dining one night with a cho - Englander, and as the Germans
charming compatriot of mine, and she see you it does not make a pretty picture..
Highly-placed Germans, who cannot said with relief,. We can speak English, It is one with which I cordially disagree.
To understand the ferocious hatred of read your psychology, are greatly per because the Germans, are making such German men and women (and especially plexed at the attitude of those they call noise eating that they won't hear us." their friends."" A few weeks ago One of the treasures I have brought out the women) for England it is necessary went to Hamburg, and, incidentally, took of Germany is an eating guide-book to that you should gather some idea of their part in a rare feast, at which there were England-telling people how to avoid views. The general view of the English fewer than two oleaginous dishes--the making noises with their soup, when man and his motives held throughout first, dried cel, always a favourite in Gernot to eat pens with a knife, how to use Germany and what one German thinks many, and now selling at from six to a napkin so as to avoid looking a man most flermans think-is summed up eight marks (es to Bs) a pound; the being shaved at a barber's, and various the single word "Money."
The following conversation is typical, I remarked one evening in a circle where I was sufficiently intimate to express mild approbation of some feature of the Allies' cause that"
it is wonderful how all these young English civilians have volunteered for the Army" The reply at the table was universal. It was that rubbing of the thumb and forefinger by which the Germans, and other foreigners mean
money"
You can hire any kind of scamp in England at one mark (18.) a day, or in Canads at five (3s.), said the father of the family, pompously. That settled the question. He was an authority, having, like thousands of others, made the famous Hamburg-Amerika round trip-Cux haven-Bouthampton London-Isle of Wight Hamburg:
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The rich English lord,, travelling always first class, accompanied by a horde of lackeys and spending mong Coals legend among Germans. Every Englishman has his price," con tinued the head of the table.
Argument with Germans about England and the English character produces no result. If you tell them that Londen is not half in ruins they do not believe you.. If you ask them to explain why it is that the English troops arrive in France through the German submarine blockade they reply They travel in hospital ships everybody knows that.".
THE EFFECT OF REPETITION. -
Ten months of mixing with these people and reading their newspapers almost shook my belief, and it was with some relief that on arriving at Hull, which the Germans believe to be practically destroy ed, I found that it was carrying on as usual very much na usual,
On the subject of the English, German women, from the higher ranks down ward, ane uven Horo virulent and obstinate than the men. There is no pre tence among the German general public of the military worth of Zeppelin raids German men (and again, especially Ger man somon) think that by killing sufficient number of English people men, women, and children--your Govern- ment will be forced by the populace to ery for peace Nations are very much inclined to judge other nations by their own feelings; and the Germans, whom the English regard as a stolid people, are really highly emotional and easily down cast, uplifted, or seared.
second a goose, which one of the guests whispered had cost not less than 50 raarks (£2 104.), and cheap at that. The pos- sible endeavours of distinguished English men to bring about peace were referred to. Many of your public man were dis- cussed, with an intimacy which would have been surprising to anyone who did
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When I come to write of the discontent in Germany, and its various forms, I shall do so carefully, because I find that there is a certain type of English mind that at the least sign of good news jumps to the conclusion that the enemy is. finished.
know that every member of your Cabinet is on a Berlin card-index, toge Your German enemy is by no means there with the names of his friends. his finished. English, people say to me, wife's friends, his financial condition, and How do Germans explain Verdun ? *** what are supposed to be his views. Lord They do not explain it. They say it has Haldane was, of course, the first name achieved its purpose. It became a great mentioned. One of the oldest of the men killing ground for the finest French in- present, with tears in his voice, referred fantry. The French losses at Verdun. to the treachery of Lord Haldane. were colossal! That is not true, of we have been waiting anxiously for the course. If you ask them to explain the moment when he would declare his failure to take Calais, they reply that detestation of English war methods and they never had any intention of taking of the great English plot to kill German Calais. It was a eluver feint on the part trade competition."
of the German General Staff to draw off Perhaps," replied the elder daughter the English while Germany was prepar- of the house in excellent English, Lording her fortifications on the Somme. If Haldane is wisely holding his peace. It you tell them there is no real submarino is quite true that we have not heard of blockade of England, they do not believe his denouncing the wicked ways of Eng you, and most firmly believe that your land, but at any rate he has not joinet Fleet is hiding in Bantry Bay. It is the treacherous Bryce in speaking ill of stupid of them, because this sort of thing our good soldiers and air heroes.
will, in the end, be their own undoing.. An officer present made great fan of I simply give you their view of you and the way that Lord Haldane and Mr. your position in the war. It has actually Churchill were hoodwinked when they taken two years of your semi-blockade, came to Germany. We showed them two years of the huge Gorman casualties; cavalry much, infantry, plenty and of the two years of the belief that the German best, nachine guns and big cannon none, rich are exploiting the German poor, to nor did they inquire about them even. bring about any sort of creaking in the Haldane, indeed, came dressed 15 a German Governmental machine.. Lutheran pastor."
now the least semblance of victory, such as the capture of the foodstuffs of Rou- mania would, I believe, smooth over the bitter recriminations of which I shall shortly speak.
HERE PECKSNIFF..
Even
The fact that Lord Haldane did not, as far as I can learn, wear a uniform, seemed to arouse great astonishment in Germany. A War Minister without a uniforin- that is something the Teutonic mind cannot comprehend. Every one in If I were asked to sum up the German Germany wears some sort of uniform if character at the moment I would sum it he can get It, and the habit seems to be up in Mr. Pecksniff · The tone of tho spreading here in England, where I recent Crown Prince's interview is the notios that telegrams are delivered by Lone of many Germans towards neutrals dainty damsels in uniform. A civilian whom they know to be going into Eng- garbed controller of the British War land. Oh, those poor English soldiers, Office is absolutely inconceivable to the suffering so terribly at the hands of our German mind
guns." Or "Think of the poor French being bled white by those money grabbing English. The tone is very different from the tone in August, 1914, when one heard them cheerfully dividing the spoils of London and Paris, and what a useful addition the British Fleet would make to theirs.
Let me in a short, anecdote give another angle of the German character. Our dear Kaiser," said one of my landladies, stood out for peace until the English put the sword into his hand."
To that I said gently." That is not the view held outside Germany. Isn't it rather a pity that he is always photo graphed in military and naval uniform? That does not look pescelike."
When I told Berlin acquaintances that having been present at one of their Zeppe lin raids on London I saw no sign of fear
We were standing on a balcony She among the English, the reply was: Look rushed to a window and what it violently what happened at Karlsruhe." The homevidently very frightened. She said, bardment of the Baden capital gave the The neighbours might hear." What Germans a very bad fright, indeed, and of it?" I said. "Like majesté-im. it is obvious to anyone who understande prisonment," Prussian paychology that active reprisals on their civilian population would soon stop. Zeppelin raids in England.
One of their misconceptions of your use of your money-power is that you hire American Schutzengeln (guardian angels) to travel aboard your steamships as safe guards for English passengers and mani tions It is generally believed that most of your Colonial victories over the Ger mans have been achieved by buying off the Gorman black troops. The cries of Business as Usual" and "War on Gezinau, Trade ;79 at the beginning of the conflict wore accepted by the Germans as just what was to be expected from the money-grabbing English."
ENGLISH MISTAKER.
I remember that London's contribution was always three thousand millions in ensh and that Glaegow in cash alone would yield two thousand millions. The Germans have an excellent knowledge of where British money is. They have, in fact, an excellent knowledge of everything English except your splendid spirit of self-sacrifice.
The effect of such an anecdote, when I The German masses cannot understand tell English people, is to convince me your conception of the Kaiser and the that nothing will make you and the Ger- Crown Prince. To them the Emperor is mans understand each other, except the a good, fatherly man, and the reception hammering your men are giving the Ger- he gets everywhere is astounding. is mans on the Somme. I mentioned the true he looks older, but he is not the incident to a Berlin friend. He was antique figure you people like to think mildly surprised at my astonishment. him
The woman was perfectly right. You It is the Kaiser's personal entourage might have got yourself and her into who continually spread the rumour that great trouble."
it is the Kaiser who objects to the sub-
German views about you are changing. marining and the Zeppeling. It is well The contempt in which the English were known that the All-Highest War Lord has held before the war has now been trans-been seriously alarmed by the threat that ferred to my own nation. Good pro- in the event of defeat he may share the paganda work for England is being done, fate of Napolcon. Of the Crown Prince, if very slowly, by the returned German who is such a great figure in England, soldiers, either wounded or on leave from
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The indisputable fact about Germany the deal about you and your system of gov the pictures of the long-legged English and tales of marital troubles. But he is ernment, your public men, their wives soldier-usually a Highlander-running not more prominent to the Germans than and connections, and make entirely wrong deductions, the average English for dear life, or saying that he won't fight the boastful Rupprecht of Bavaria
another battle unless he gets an extra I have seen references in the English man I meet knows nothing of the Germans, five ebillings, are disappearing from the and German newspapers since I returned the German sratem of government, and comic papers. The editors of these news here to the German business still being German public men.
papers have received protests from Ger carried on in England.
If this system You are inclined to sacribe to the German soldiers in the trenches saying that is being carried out with the idea of ap- mans your own qualities. In nothing such pictures are untrue and do, in fact, peasing the Germans as the Germans is this more obvious than the English belittle the German soldiers, who have think it is a mistaken policy. Every idea that the fair treatment of "Ger-
to fight such unexpectedly worthy German well understands that if the mans in England will beget fair treat-
enemics. For it is the dower of German whole of the German property in the Bri- ment of the English in Germany, The infantry that are sent to face you on the tish Empire were sequestrated the war Prussians, who have many Oriental Bomme. It was the best available Ger would be appreciably hearer its close. characteristics and, as to many of them,
man troops that were destroyed in wave They know well that whereas Great Bri- good deal of Oriental appearance, think after wave in the great German defeat at tain and her Colonies have, by compari- Orientally, and attribute fair, or what Verdun. They are now systematically son, very few investments in Germany, their best against the British, Germany has very large holdings through- fright and a desire to curry favour.
That was out the British Empire. Some ill-informed English people seem admitted to me repeatedly.
When I come to deal with the prisoner to think that the Reichstag is something
Throughout the war Germany has question, which I studied on the spot, I like the House of Commons, and that a utilized every scrap of material in the shall have something to say of the weak- vote in Germany has the same kind of Empire to help her to win. To one who ness of the British policy in regard to influence possessed by a vote in England. knows Germany, therefore, it does not the small handful of interned British in No one in Germany was surprised when come wholly as a surprise to learn that Germany and the great army of interned the Socialists joind the war party, she has heeded the demands from some Germans in England. Your numerical though English, and American Socialists were astonished. Every German is a quarters to put criminals in the most superiority in prisoners places you in
dangerous service at the front, where they paramount position if you exercise it. German Erst, be he Socialist or be beare driven to their work. I have heard My four visits to Germany during the naturalized. By generations of tradition it stated on excellent authority that some war convinced me that it is only your. it has become instinct, and by schooling of them have actually been chained to the ignorance of German psychology and from the age of four years. Every Gor
machine guns and been given this terrible their ignorance of yours that prevent man believes only a German. The reason chance to fight for their lives. This is a justice being done to the men at Ruhleben The Timer is allowed to be sold freely all radical departure from former German and elsewhere, who are losing their over Germany is because the German Bosts that no man with a criminal record | reason. Government "knowi that no German was allowed to serve. believes a word in a foreign newspaper.
you call sportsmanlike, treatment to sendi and Canadians
I have had English and Anan news. papers with me in the mody parts of
GERMAN IN LONDON STREETS,' Germans are under the impression | that there is much poverty and discontent There apparently is
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with whom I have mixed, maoy of
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of course know Buglisli, did not take the paper published in England called the trouble to look at them, or if they did Labour Leader, which I do not happen read them laughed heartily, one to have seen anywhere here, but which is Buch views are not, of course, the views loing a great deal of harm in Germany. of people like the unfortunate Prince It suggests a state of affairs among the Lichnowsky, the German Ambassador to people here which I have not encountered. Great Britain at the beginning of the Since my arrival in England I have walk- war and his Princes This worthy ed about London a great deal, in rich couple spend most of their time telling quarters and in poor, and though the Friday, 15th Dec
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