PRAISE OF ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 16

PRAISE OF ENGLAND.

> M. Pelletan. an ex-Minister of France, writing In the "Radical," says:— "What a magnificent example England sets'. The blood of her children flows with ours. She is giving her milliards and her men to crush German pride. She has entered into the trials and dangers of the most colossal conflict history has ever seen, without having been obliged to do so by any .treaty of alliance, while tbe Kaiser did bis utmost to secure her neutrality. She entered the struggle in loyalty to her signature guaranteeing the integrity of Belgium, to safeguard her honour, and because she was conscions of the menace with which German imperialism burdened the liberties of the world. Never could she bave obeyed higher motives in a more noble cause, and what a fine spectacle ehe still presents!" M. Pelletan then draws a picture of England's national institutious, which be sums up as constituting a national sovereignty that is really sovereign:— "To-day," be proceeds, "in the midst of •war the country retains all its liberties— no exceptional law. no relapse towards the arbitrary. The rage of tbe Teutons aguinV tbe .English becomes tbe more exasperated the more impotent it finds itself. What odions and ridiculous attempts Germany makes, what miserable reprisals agahwt the formidable power which closes all the j oceans to ber, and can throw her soldiers from India, America, and Australia;"