"KULTUR” LANGUAGE AT HEIDELBERG

Evening Star, Issue 16626, 8 January 1918, Page 5

"KULTUR” LANGUAGE AT HEIDELBERG

Professor Max Weber, of Heidelberg, whose candid articles in the ‘ Frankfurter Zeitung’ have got him and that journal into considerable trouble, lias now “ made good," in a manner well known to the German professional world, by violent abuse of enemy statesmen. ’His new article, which is muck admired in Germany, contains the following:—■ “At the head of some of the enemy Powers are coarse rascals and adventurers, who cannot speak of us except in terms of undignified abuse, and who make demands of us which no people with a sense of honor can even discuss; meanwhile, they speak of the war in the language of a circus boxer (sic), and above all they crush down by violence the longing for peace of their own peoples and of the allied peoples whose freedom they violate. And all this is merely because they have to fear' for their own • persons the day of reckoning after peace, and so they would like to postpone peace in the mad hope that the will of the, German people to maintain itself may yet collapse. As f long ae they can'keep up this madness there will be no peace. “ But the German people know the fate that is prepared for them. The enemy armies are composed to an increasing extent of barbarians. On the western front there is to-day a scum of African and Asiatic savages, and all the robbers and rascals of tho earth are there together under arms, ready to lay waste German land at the first moment when there is a falling off in tho adequate supply of our army with, munitions. The bestial atrocities which were practised by the undisciplined Russian hordes in their temporary penetration, of country in part inhabited by comrades of their own rij.ee (this seems to be a double-edged compliment from Heidelberg to East Prussia) recall the medieval Mongolian age. A part of the governing classes in enemy countries seems to have gone entirely mad with hatred. In France some of the university classes have the habit of spitting at defenceless enemies which elsewhere is only conceivable among prostitutes. Nobody, therefore, can doubt what would bo the ’lot of the German people in the event of any slackening of its readiness for war, especially as tho schemes of systematic plundering and permanent enslavement of Germany in the event of victory have been publicly discussed among our enemies without any objectiofi being made.” Tne explanation of all this is, doubtless, to be found in the fact that Professor Bewer is one of the candidates for tho succession to Professor Breutano’s muchdisputed chair at Munich University ; since the publication of the article quoted above, tho list has. been narrowed down, to Professor Weber and Professor Von ocnauz, of Wurzburg.