UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR

North Otago Times, Volume CII, Issue 13462, 5 January 1916, Page 2

UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR

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Never again .after ilie > war shall-I he students of foreign .countries vi.Rit 'tlie ' technical schools, mid "universities '. '(if Germany, says the Tag:— ■ ■ "We were oiice so ; ready,'' saysi't.tie paper, "to t,l|e pi-qiiiiets, of Tier-, man ■ progress . with- foreign countries, Wo did.lt. not only .-.from our inherent friendliness tiud hospitality, but from practical considerations also, We lielioved that in this wtiv we should open a path in the world for Gorman thought when educated representatives of foreign eountries saw: what flermnnv could do and how far we had gone in'nll the spheres of knowledge "technical skill, chemistry, agriculture, and social science. We cherished tli'e hope that, the foreigners who oaine here would ,; be grateful for our hospitality and thn rich stores of knowledge which we so'willingly gave, them, qnd would return to their homes with increased respect sympathy for Germany, ; 1 "Wo know what sort of gratitudn.vre have to expect 'from foreign countries for our generous behaviour. Where were all thn Itussians, Japanese, English, and French, Americans, Rumanians... and . Greeks, who have en,joyo,<| the hospital", ity of our higli schools when German ■ methods were libelled in a most' horrible fashion in their countries? Why did they not in tho.name.of truth anil righteousness make a protest? Why dill they tint- reply to the cry of ficrmim barbarism by showing llow nobly thoy were received in Germany and what rich treasures of German culture,they took away? . . . But we have tho power to pay them- bnc]j. We can very well do without foreign knowledge, hut the world cannot do without German knowledge. And so the trite answer, to a hostile world outside would be to shut * it out of German higli schools, and universities for a generation. And let us establish the same rule for the nentral countries which .have shown their illwill to us so clearly."