THOUGHTS OX THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15834, 3 February 1915, Page 10

THOUGHTS OX THE WAR.

♦ The Truth. If any man says he is not afraid of shelltire he is a liar. —Philip Gibbs. The King Who Knew. ' Con todo el mundo guerra. y paz con Ingleterra" ("War with" the whole world if you like: but peace with England").— Philip 11. of Spain. A Truism. The War Office- may —and, indeed, is—a groat authority "on war, but about human nature, about public opinion, its ideas are merely stupid.Arnold Bennett. A Quick Finish. It will hardly be gainsaid that 500,000 thoroughly-trained Japanese soldiers would turn tuo scale at the present conjuncture. It seems equally true that no hesitation shculd be left about inviting them over, provided that the scheme is legible — Or. K. J. Dillon. Out of Place. Perhapsand hero I am onlr repeating what a wounded soldier said v', me — the hobbledehoys who swathe themselves and their ma urines in fluttering flags' might profitably remember that to flaunt the Union Jack, in this country is no signal proof of valour.—The- Bight Hon. 0. W. £. Russell. The Resurrection. We have to resurrect the country that lies bleeding across the Channel. " Belgium lias died for freedom, tor our freedom, for the freedom of the world. Let us see that she rises again triumphant from her tears and ashes. And if righteousness endures beneath tho sun she will rise.A. G. Gardiner. Levelling Incomes. In the army we have every variety of character and taiente. But we level them all down to the same scale of income. If somo ridiculous theorist were to Lay that we should examine each soldier separately and graduate his pay accordingly we sh-juld say i:, wat> " blithering nonsense. - ' —G. B. Shaw. The Farncophil. When I think of all that the world owes in letters and art*, in thought and achievement, to the clear, vivid, sensitive genius of Fiance. it <j,x- d my heart g.nd to hear our young men in khaki— md some of them "not vet in khaki—whistling the Marseillaise as they march to and from their drill.— William Archer. Keep Your Place! The activities of woman should l.e confined to children, church, and cooking.— The Gorman Emperor. " The University of Essen. Whence comas tha amazing delusion that identifies German culture with Kaireiism and Kruppism? It is the University of Essen wo want to get at. for Gottingen. Bonn. Heidelberg, and Leipzig we have nothing but r»«pect and admiration. —William Archer. The Vindication of Democracy. Democracy in tho present hour is sordidly justifying itself. AiUoeraov (however disguised) is fighting its last right. Ihe defeat of milit:i.ist Germany will be a groat stride in civilisation. The defeat of tho institution of autocracy will be a second and a greater.—Arnold Bennett. The Austrian Anomaly. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is held together not by tho volition of the immense majority of the inhabitants, but by the sword It is a creature of the sword. It lias now drawn the sword, and, if it : . defeated, it will perish by the tword.— George M. Xrevelyan.