GERMANY’S JEALOUS ENMITY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 248, 1 August 1941, Page 4

GERMANY’S JEALOUS ENMITY.

Relying on personal observations of Germany and the German people, the Earl of Onslow in a letter to “The Times’ ’ raises ,a protest against the idea that Britain’s conflict with Germany is merely one with Hitlerism and Nazism, and to say that this particular creed is in no way new. 1 first began to reside in Germany in 1894, he writes, and lived practically, entix'ely with Germans, who spoke to me with the utmost freedom about the relations between England and Germany .They made no disguise of their hatred toward us, not personally—for they were civil enough to me—but nationally. They explained the reason' at length. They felt that during .the Napoleonic wars Germany had had to bear the brunt of the fighting with France, although they recognised that we also contributed to tho final victory, but whereas we, during those wars and in the eighteenth century and later, amassed a large section of the vacant space in the earth, Germany got nothing. In the seventies, when Germany had become united after the war and the Gormans looked out oi the window upon the world, they saw all the best places on the earth taken up by the English. Canada, South Africa, East and "West Africa, the West fndos, Malaya, Australia, India, New Zealand wore under the British flag; the Red Son. and the Mediterranean were dominated by the British Navy ; our infllenee extended over the Persian Gulf, and, as if that were not enough an English-speaking race dominated the whole of North America. And so the Germans bated us with a bitter hatred and still do. They think wo have done them out of their share of the earth. The idea of ousting us certainly does not emanate from Hitler. It was as strong in Germany GO years ago as it is to-day, so that wo should not look upon the Germans as a friendly race to ourselves, temporarily dominated by a gang of wicked men, but recognise the fact that Germany is our bitterest enemy, and the issue has now to he fought out to a finish.