The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14,1905. GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 118, 14 December 1905, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1905. GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

It is asserted with some degree of truth and justice that the halfpenny papers in England are largely responsible for the illfeeling in Germany towards Britain. Many vety bitter things have been published concerning Germany and German policy, and the responsibility for the want of cordiality in the relations between Britain and her neighbor does not he entirely on the Continental side of the North Sea. Of course, no sensible man of either nation talks of war. The pos'.lionin that respect has been ably expressed for both peoples by Professor Delbruck. "I venture to think," sayi that well known publicist, c< that the greatest misfortune that would overtake Germany next to a defeat in a war with England would be a victory in a war with England— indeed, one would say that a victory over England would mean a still greater misfortune for us than a defeat. For it is quite certain that if we were to beat England we should obtain a supremacy over all other countries, that would be intolerable to them, and that in a short time they would all unite against us. And the English would experience precisely the same if they were to beat us." When asked to state, if he could, the causes of German dislike for Britain, Professor Delbruck suggested that for the masses there were the after-effects of sympathy for «he Boers, and among educated people there was the conviction that Britain's whole policy was shaped to exclude Germany from jp&rfrioij>s»fci»» ita tU« Go-vom-ment of the world onts : de Europe. Jealousy of Britain's wide Empire and successful colonisation also, no doubt, enters into the German sen'uiment. Whatever its cause 3 the illfeeling la deplorable. Probably an open leaning towards Germany would render the new Liberal Ministry unpopular at once, but something can be done by both Governments and peoples to improve matter?.