ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 89, 22 April 1913, Page 4

ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Mr Xorman Angell, author of “The Great Illusion,” has been travelling through Germany, with the object, a Berlin correspondent states, of laying the foundations of a movement similar to that started in England. He addressed meetings, composed mainly of University students and professors, in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Gottingen, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, and Wurzburg. These meetings, however, so Air Angell told the correspondent referred to, were not the principal object of his visit. He urged upon students and University organisations the desirability of giving more attention to that range of facts which affect international relationship in the sense of increasing the interdependence of the great nations. These facts are already receiving more attention in Germany than in England. So far, however, the study of them has been confined to a small group of economists, outside of which it has had little influence. By pointing out the importance of these forces and the necessity of placing their investigation on a more systematic basis, Mr Angell hopes to induce some of the many thousand German students who every year prepare some piece of original work in order to proceed to the degree of doctor to turn their energies in this direction. The whole movement was made primarily a matter of scientific investigation, not of pacifist propaganda. At the same time it is evident that a more general realisation of the extent'to which the interests of modern nations are common rather than opposed will make for a sounder public opinion and a more rational policy both in England and Germany;