The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911. GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 54, 18 October 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911. GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

At the beginning of September, when the Moroccan crisis was most acute, the editor of the “Berliner Tagebhitt,” Herr Theodor Walffe, published an article in his paper on the question which throws instructive light on the intimate working of the best German mind. Writing from a Dutch seaside resort, Herr Wolff, alluding to the anxiety which was felt even outside Germany as to the outcome of the negotiations, said: “If the general dissatisfaction is also in this case directed more against us than against the French, the reason for it is less than ever prompted by the question at issue, since everyone admits that France has only too cava-lisr-lika broken the Act of Algeciras. As in every other similar case, the progressive nations are exhibiting their antipathy towards a State which is trying to bar the road to democratic ideas and still preserves, in the midst of Europe modernised long igo, its bureaucratic police and Junker character. Flatterers and exploiters of the present regime are simply lying to the German philister when they asure him that the other nations are only envious of Germany’s power and that in consequence their enmity is only jealousy. In reply to this, one only needs to ask why does not the same hostility manifest itself with regard to England, which is also constantly striving after power uul is devoid of all scruple? No, the nations of Europe combine on such occasions against Germany not merely because her power appears to them so formidable; they combine against her because the Prussian-Ger-man regime, with its tutelage and its encouragement to sycophants, is opposed to all their views and feelings.” The animus against England .'.'hich Herr Wollfe manifests in this passage comes to the surface once •lore in the course of the same aricle. Speaking of the compensations ..hich Germany expects out of the Morocco deal, he says; “The great majority of the German public docs mt demand the moon, and would •bully have reduced still more its expectations and claims had not England by her provocative intervention urned a simple question of business ini a something higher. The German national feeling has really been moused, and if the Biitish Government had thought that by thus intervening she would render France a service, all that can be said is that Ibis service was the most clumsy imaginable.” All of which goes to show that the anti-British feeling in Germany is as strong as ever, despite the a.snranees to the contrary from high quarters.