GERMAN AND GREAT

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43118, 25 July 1907, Page 4

GERMAN AND GREAT

Two articles upon the. t mptual. relations of these two nations appear in the Contemporary ■>Review, *. the first written by Dr Deni burg, viee-presi-rdent of the-reception- committee which [Unvoted fho -English " .journalists to Aisit Germany, and the second by “Signe,” upon the p.ec-edAg war oi words between tire newspapers ;of the two countries. Dr.. D.emburg - claims for the invitation that it emanated from the representatives of every class in Germany, arid that it, . was “supported by a Wire of straightfor'Anrd .friendly -respect.’-’- -He • scouts the idea of Germany desiring a war with Great Britain, and asks "bow could the former find the time to think of advantageous undertakings which would place in jeopardy all that is already won?. “And,” he presently continues, “nothing could be more unworth V of two noble nations than to allow themselves to be made the sport of such traitorous fantasies. Just as tire German journalists came home with a firm, conviction of the peaceful and friendly feelings which thev every where met in England, so will the journey of the English journalists yield a like result,” Dr Dernburg, however, omits to mention that those “traitorous fantasies” originated with eminent German publicists, and were disseminated in influential German reviews . and newspapers. “Signe,” who writes with a bundle of cut-tiners from the journals of both countries before him, declares that “'thev make some of the, maddest reading that could be presented to some people,” and asserts that “it is, inherent,ly improbable that. Germany should desire to attack England, and inherently improbable that England should desire to attack. Germany.” He tells us that the foreign Ministers of the two countries “are two of the least excitable of statesmen, and that we can trust them not to be driven from their course bv sensational writers in the Press” : but Ire appears to forget that in so far ns the German papers were concerned, they took their cue from the laneuave of the Emperor, and that be, and not Prince Bulow, directs the foreign, policy of the Empire, and is responsible for all tire tall talk

about depriving Great Britain of her supremacy on the seas, which has found such a resonant echo in the “Deutche Revue,” through the voiced' Vice-Admiral Livonius.