PRUSSIAN SPIRIT IMMORTAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 352, 8 September 1933, Page 5

PRUSSIAN SPIRIT IMMORTAL

I Vainly Fouglil: by Nations

I GERMAN PRESS ON LORD I GREY

| Press Association —Copyright, i London, Sept, 7. j The Borscn Zeitung, Berlin, says that | Britain, France and America have vaini ly fought the Prussian spirit and Lord I Grey has been taken to his grave with the knowledge that the Prussian spirit is immortal.

The Deutsche Allegorncinc Zeitung says Lord Grey did not seek the war I but did not strive to avoid it because he j saw a favourable chance of overpowerj ing a dangerous German rival, j Leading statesmen and newspapers of i France are unanimous in deploring the I passing of a peace-loving leader with j the instincts of an English gentleman, j The Temps recalls Lord Grey’s speech in April, 1933, and says it was the bej ginning of a change in British opinion iin the face of the Nazi menace. “By I this grave warning,” it says, “Lord Grey i rendered a supreme service to his coun- | try and to humanity.” | Romo newspapers emphasise Lord j Grey’s lifelong work for the maintenance I of peace and pay tribute to his con- | summate tact in dealing with the United ! States when that country was neutral in j the . Great War.

The Daily Telegraph says Lord Grey’s constant and supreme object was the maintenance of peace. The failure to prevent war lay not with London but with Berlin.

The Daily Herald says that in the long list of British statesmen there is probably no noV.'-r character than Lord Grey. Yet there are few who despite the rectitude of his character and sincerity of purpose so helped to prepare for the disaster of the war. Believing he was working for peace, justice and freedom he led himself and England into the mazes of diplomatic intrigue and the conflicting creeds of “balance of power,” and when the full consequences came he could not withdraw. “His debt of honour had to be paid with a million lives,” says the paper. “Let us not forget.”