ANGLO-GERMAN ALLIANCE!

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14237, 3 March 1917, Page 3

ANGLO-GERMAN ALLIANCE!

FANTASTIC SCHEME. OF A BERLIN

NEWSPAPER.

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 7. The Frankfurter Zeitung. m a threecolumn article, takes upon itself the task of telling England what is really good for her •m the future, and what errors she had committed m the past. Though the Frankfurter Zeitung, like all other German journals, is now telling tho German people that they really liave a magnificent opportunity to go on fighthifr to show the stupid "Entente Powers they liave no chance after the so-called peace offer they refused, the journal nevertheless ends_ up writh the deliglutful'.y naive conclusion tliat what really would secure the world's peace is nothing more or less ttyan — an alliance with England.

"One of the most important results of the war will be to convince Engiand of tlie impossibility of keeping up its former European a.hd world policies. When it is recognised at Whitehall that the doctrine of a continental balance of power is a dangerous mistake and that Germany and her Central allies cannot be dominated by the strongest imaginable concentration of power, than the conclusions to- be drawn from this re--ugiiitioi! are inevitable.

England will have to seek for an arrangement with Germany. Such an arrangement would put right again^ the whole disorganised clockwork of worldpolitics for a long- time if the peace which will end this war, is to endure. A poUtiiiai readjustment of frontiers between Germany and England, provided that Ehgland honestly and without reserve concludes it, and a sensible policy based thereupon, would, m fact, be the solution of the question of the safeguarding of peace. . "If the Entente had accepted the German peace offer, an arrangement would have been possible. It will now be more difficult at a later time, because further bloodshed cannot be without its influence on the conditions. But even then it will not be impossible.. Such an arrangement of general politics Would result iv a new balance of power, which would no longer be a^ balance of Continental Powers, but a general balance of all the forces spread over this planet."