THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 241, 14 November 1914, Page 8

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

FALSEHOOD OF GERMAN POLICY. It is not in practice possible for a nation, any more than an.individual, to ignore the opinion of its fellows. German policy, beginning with a self-asser-tion begotten of the consciousness of sudden strength, has gradually drifted into this error. Now, too late, its falsehood is being revealed. But there are some falsehoods which it is a crime against God and man to believe, and the falsehood which inspired the destruction of Rheiins is one of them. It will require a far heavier atonement than a few lying excuses to obtain any sort of absolution for so heinous an offence. —"Dailv News." JETTISONING PRECEDENT.

Why not admit that the nations of Europe, confronted with ultimate necessity, facing a war of self-preservation as the war is undoubtedly regarded in Germany, Great Britain, and. France, have been impelled to cast overboard consistency and precedent, old friendships and old hatreds? An English writer frankly admits that, being moved to re-read the story of the Napoleonic campaigns, he had to give it up as hopelessly confusing. Everything was wrong, the alliances, the leaders, the names of battles. Why make an appeal to sentiment in this most unsentimental of all professions, the business of statecraft? —"Evening Tost" (New York).