THE MADNESS OF GERMANY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 22 June 1915, Page 4

THE MADNESS OF GERMANY.

The suggestions just made by a Berlin ' l'rofessor. that in future foreigners : should be excluded from Oermjn I'n.iver- , sities. Ie thoroughly characteristic v , :' the ■ enormous svlf-suilieienry of th« liermans, and the monetrou-s arrogance of their outlook upon the rest of mankind. Tile savant responsible for tiiis brilliant idea adds that anything i" tlie way .if repri su'.h need not concern (.iermany, because ! foreign countries have nothing to otfer the (ierrn.iiid that is worthy of their aovptamc. This Inst remark is typically redolent of Herman megalomania, which hae by this time actually developed into :ui acute form of insanity. The other daj Dr. Sarolea, tiie 'famous Belgian publicist, submitted tv an American anidienee a bitterly ironicaJ but skilful diagnosis of tierman national infinity. Boundless arroiziunv. the outcome of jrreat mJlita.ry acliievement. fed by the mo«t reckless seifadulatiiin till it aesumetl gigaretic proportions, has turned the brain of the Herman nation. Aβ a natural cor.-e----qupnve, Uw (iprnrans, aeeing notihing hill inferiors around them, ba\•■ conic t ■ believe that they can justly demand t.i control iu\d subjupate the whole world, and that anyone who obstructs their l>atli is conspiring against them, an<l so they have graduaHy transformed their iinscrupirioiß ainbrl.ioiit- into .1 creed of jiiitriotii- conquest anil nsp-ession. l>! cMuu-e, It has ttt"Keii a long time to produce these re.su] te; but the proceea of iirfotrting the Teutonic race with the poison of Paji-CJeruianism has pone on for the juet forty years. And so it C'inie.-- about that we have dfetinguisheU professors like Key and lhiKst- asserting that Germans ;ue in trinsvcnlly superior in all the chief elements of civi-lisation to ilie of mankind, and historians like Trcitsvhke awl swikliers-like Bernhardi frankly and openly devising plans and propapatin.u -Afim'i for the conquest of all other and the. establishment of (utmaii predominance on an impregnable basis

throughout the world. Long since the more thoughtful of the Germans lmve been compelled to realise that tiieir policy ami rtheir projects are highly distasteful to other nations. But this lias only aa-oursed in them an intenser arrogance .and a sterner determination to "impose themselves" upon everybody who disputes their will. Ilardeji'e famous lament. "We have no friend in ail the world," did not induce any patriotic (ierman to change his ways; it only i > .\n£]>crateu > the nation more bitterly aigainst all poteihle enemies. An<l now that Germany is being compelled tn realise that, in spite of all 'her struggles, flier desperate stroke fur "world-power" has failed, her people have broken forth into a hysterical frenzy of impotent wrath and hatred against all who have honilkcd their schemes of oon<|ur*)t and aggression, and more than all against Kngland. To the average (ierman journalist. England is a ■■venomous reptile." "the bciist that rages yonder,"' and he descrilw* with maniac glee, the writhings of "our British cousins" when at Inst the day of retribution ,-omes. and they feel the Herman sword hewing -their bestial bodies." The following extract from a Herman newspaper of tome standing deserves to be chronicled in a record of Teutonic megalomania: "The Kaiser, who recently gave to the world the historically unique, tlie poetic, the highly dramatic, the heart-and-soul uprooting example of the magnanimity with which a formidable ruler, though hemmed in by the vile chains of envy and hatred, .-till troubles himself to attempt to ,-alVg.iard tlie rights of nations this Kaincr, this spotless wearer of the imperial and ro\al crown*, this grandiose modern representative o> the glory \•oiieh.-ufed from on HL'h to the I Anuuinlfd of the Lord, who hat- girded tlie sword in the full consciousness of bavin.' right on his side in the absolute certainty of victory; thin immaculate Sovereign of the liermanic rare, the vile brood nf Albion dares (o slander and to besmirch with it.- venom." \nd as a fitting pendant i" thi* lunatic outhurst we may quote <he conclusion to a lon.- letter from a German Doctor of 1 , -, loiophy, exuding venommis frenzy in every line, that appeared recently in the "lllistTver": "We Germanics shall do exactly as we like: no Gods nor men shall prevent 1.-." There, in a sentence, we have inscriliod lor all eye* to see the awful moral degeneration n.itf the nvnt;il collapse oi the German race, and the presage of its ruinous downfall.