DOCTRINE OF HATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

DOCTRINE OF HATE.

AUSTRIAN WRITER'S PROTEST. A remarkable book dealing with Great Britain has recently made its appearance in Vienna. The author is Dr. Landauer, and it has for its subject the propaganda of hatred against Great Britain, in which the entire German and Austrian Press is engaged at present, German writers vie with one another in an impossible endeavour to prove that the responsibility for the war lies with King Edward VII. Br. Landauer declares that such an accusation is groundless, and alio that Great Britain's conduct since the outbreak of hostilities lias been logical and correct in the extreme. "The British did not want war," he writes, " but it is impossible to imagine that the religion of hatred preaihed', and the insults heaped upon them by us would not provoke the English. " Such hatred and insults are simply absurd. Those who know the Englishman in his private life, those who have studied the social and political structure of Great Britain, those, finally, who have learned that self-respect is one of Englishmen s chief qualities, will never bolieve that the English nation could or would commit a crime against itself or against mankind.''