The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1914. GERMAN "ASSURANCES."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 303, 21 December 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1914. GERMAN "ASSURANCES."

What a very extraordinarily perverted person—even among a nation of people who have thrown all honor, righteousness, and moral sense to the four winds of Heaven—Count Bomstorff is, becomes more and more apparent day by day. In the land of “tall talk,” while the greater American eagle flaps its wings and crows, this Prussian pervert crows even more loudly. Recently he expressed annoyance at Canada’s loyalty to the Motherland and told the United States that he wished to say, earnestly and emphatically, that “if the Government of the United* States wants assurances from Germany that in the event of victory she will not seek expansion or colonisation in North America, including Canada, and also South America, Germany will give the assurances at once.” It is almost unbelievable that a large section of the American Press takes this person seriously. The New York Post actually welcomed the German’s statesmens, though, as an afterthought probably, it does remark that “every assurance wliich Germany can give that this will not be her policy, if it is based oil something more definite than ‘a scrap of paper,’ will be to her advantage.” How very funny the wri-j ter of that sentence is he surely does not know. Some newspapers are even probably under the over-powering influence of the German dollar—deprecating any question of casting doubt on German assurances, and one of them urges that it would be only fair “to recall that Germany has sought to justify the violation of Belgian neutrality upon grounds that could scarcely be pleaded to defend the breach of a promise to respect the Monroe Doctrine.” How people must laugh at such efforts to bolster up the greatest convicted liars on earth.