RATTLING AND REAPING.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 3636, 19 November 1918, Page 2

RATTLING AND REAPING.

Germany's isolation, duo to her sabre-rattling habit, is the subject of a lament in Vorwarts, Berlin's Socialist organ: "If a small boy is beaten by a big one in the streets the sympathies of the passer-by naturally turn towards the little fellow. This old psychological experience is equally to bo gathered from the world history. Why is it, then, that we, who from the first were the weaker party in men and in material, have not derived the slightest advantage from that fact? Mainly because our leaders and our politicians confined themselves to an attempt to crush every fresh enmity under a show of might and to confirm alliances in being merely by means of a further show of might. We have made more than sufficient conquests on the battlefield and on the seas. Yet these are of no value to us in our need for the world's -sympathies, without which we shall "never be able to thrive. We need moral conquests both within and without, and these we cannot secure by persisting in our characteristic Prussian habit of rattling the sabre in the ears of all foreigners and denouncing as weakness every desire to regard a situation, if only* momentarily, from the standpoint of an outsider."