THE NIGHTMARE OF BAD FAITH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4472, 13 February 1917, Page 6

THE NIGHTMARE OF BAD FAITH.

AMERICANS KNOW NOTHING LIKE -vr. “The Americans,” says Mr. Chesterton. in the Sundav Times, “have never known the nightmare of had faith with which we have to deal. “There have been few things in the least like Prussia in human history ; there have been none in American history.” “There is such a thing as Christendom.” says Mr. Chesterton; “certain silent understandings about human dignity, about women, about- prisoners and the limits of conquest do underlie even the - noble pride of national independence. “The thing does exist and there is one State in Europe which denies it. There is-one State equipped with all the European power which has dedicated itself to destroy the European sentiment. < • ■ '' “There has never been anything at once American and anti-American in the cold and deadlv sense in which Prussia has always been European and anti-European.”': •