A RARE GERMAN VIEW.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 3

A RARE GERMAN VIEW.

' ; ftOTA Miq^TURIST.'7' ~.'., Herr -Haenisch', V. Social. Democratic deputy in -the' * nissia£; l&nutag^rV ceAtly said: "The firm'resolve' to hold out and to win vi'hich must also ]ive in our children cmgnt not to become a wild hate against ~tho enemy nations. However artistic Lissauer's 'Hymn of Hate' may be, and however valuable it may 'be as the expression of the temper of. the moment, it wo aid, nevertheless, be deeply deplorable if the sentiments expressed in it were to work themselves into the hearts of our children and foster a long hatred after the war. . •. Far better, were it if they were told of the miseries in East Prussia, Galicia, Poland, Belgium, and Northern France, and were filled with a deep sorrow at the destruction of so many young and hopeful lives, of so many material and ideal values. . . Tn this connection a word must be said with reference to the action of certain German men of science in renouncing their, foreign degrees and decorations. We Socialists attach but little value to these externals and none but .the Iron Cross may decorate the breast of, a "Socialist, but these things are important as a symptom. There has even been some talk that in the future German science and art must lead their own life, and that foreign scientific work should not be reviewed in German peri-, odicals. This, is shger rubbish. After the war the nations will be still more dependent upon one another than before, and without the fructifying influence of foreign countries our* national culture will wither."