GERMAN MILITARISM.
Sir,— Your correspondent, John C. Earl, says :—" Our quarrel is not with Germans as fellow-creatures, but with the militarism." As the Germans aro a nation of militarists, and as the Kaiser in his famous speech reported in the Daily Telegraph, October 28, 1908, said, " tfie prevailing sentiment among large sections of the middle and lower classes of my people- j is not friendly to England," we are safe | in assuming that every German, natural- j ised or unnaturalised, is affected by what was in 1908 the "prevailing sentiment."! Subsequent events have entitled every German to bear the brand of Cain; and , the "danger to the moral sanity" of j civilised peoples is not. as stated by your i correspondent, in anti-Germanism, but in giving place and power to Huns so j debased that the veneer of kultur fails to | hide the whited sepulchre of a (,-iusslydepreciated morality, and who shou.d bo eschowed by all who love righteousness. 23, Symonds Street. Geo. F. Henry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16796, 12 March 1918, Page 7
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