PRUSSIAN SPIRIT IMMORTAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 353, 9 September 1933, Page 5

PRUSSIAN SPIRIT IMMORTAL

Vainly Foughfc by Nations

GERMAN PRESS ON LORD GREY Press Association.— Copyright. London, Sept. 7. The Boi-scn Zeitung, Berlin, says that

Britain. France and America have vain-

ly fought the Prussian spirit and Lord Grey has been taken to his grave with the knowledge that the Prussian spirit is immortal. The Deutsche Allegcmeine Zeitung

says Lord Grey did not seek the war

but did not strive to avoid it because ho saw a favourable chance of overpowering a dangerous German rival. Leading statesmen and newspapers of

France are unanimous in deploring the passing of a peace-loving leader with the instincts of an English gentleman. The Temps recalls Lord Grey's speech in April, 1933, and says it was the beginning of a change in British opinion

in the face of the Nazi menace. "By this grave warning," it says, "Lord Grey rendered a supreme service to his country and to humanity." Rome newspapers emphasise Lord Grey's lifelong work for the maintenance of peace and pay tribute to his consummate tact in dealing with the United States when that country was neutral in 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," j and when ths full consequences came he could not withdraw. "His debt of honj cur had to bo paid with a million lives," I says the paper. "Let us not forget."