WHY WE ARE HATED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7378, 3 February 1902, Page 2

WHY WE ARE HATED.

VIEWS OF LORD EITCHENER'S. MOTHER.

Mrs Eitohener, mother of Lord? Kitchener, who for many years has lived in Brittany, in a conversatiem with the pParis correspondent of theNew York Herald, among other mattersreferred to the wave of Anglophobia that; had swept over the Continent. Some> remarks reflecting on the behaviour of. English residents abroad wonld seem to> indicate that here, in Mrs Kitchener's! views, is one of the reasons why the Anglo-Saxon has become so cordially detested outside his own country:— "ls grieves me to say it, because I love - my countrymen and countrywoman with ail my heart, but I am so ashamed of the majority I see abroad. They are so noisy and self-asaertiv c, so impolite, so careless of other people's feelings. They scoff at the customs of the country they are visitiog, they strut (about as if they would Bay s 'Behold me; lam British I I can do anything ever so much better; than, anyone!' Yet the fundamental British oharacter is so truly admirable, strong in justice, j brave, and tenacious. The mistake we I are so apt to make is to underrate others. Look at this oru&l war, for instance. ' Just thirty or forty thousand British soldiers, and that would be quite sufficient !' They wo-ald easily do the work of demi-gods 1 1 1 When shall we cease to despise our enemies ?" Needless* perhaps, to* say, the mother ©f the famous general has an intense admiration for Tommy Atkins, and nobody is more grieved than she to read of the cruelties laid to his charge. "He may be rough, but he is a brave and generous foe, and would share his last crust with a wounded.comrade, Briton or Boer." Respecting the future of the British Empire, Mrs Kitchener is a decided optimist :— " I believe the future depends upon each individual, and that God blesses a people according to their righteousness. Our beloved Queen Victoria was so truly good and great, so earnest and faithful and patriotic, such a spring of beauty in the arid materialism of her time, that God blessed her peoplethrough her/