GERMANY'S GRIEVANCE AND POLICY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12750, 23 March 1910, Page 1

GERMANY'S GRIEVANCE AND POLICY.

A writer in "Nash's" magazine states :— Germany, it should be understood, labours under an obsession that siio is iv the toils of a vast diplomatic intrigue, of which England is the moving spirit, which ie gradually isolating her, hemming her in. She points to the Anglo-* rench entente, to the Anglo-Italian understanding, to the Anglo-Spanish marriage, to the Anglo-Portugueso treaty, to the Anglo-Japanese alliance, to Anglo'lurkish sympathy, to Anglo-Ameri-can, kinship, and she asks, not unnaturally: "But where do I come in?" It is for all the world like the school bully who tyrannised over his companions so long that they became tired of piaying with him and left him out of their games entirely. This is what -tlie German bully calls isolation, so no is going about among his European companions, shaking his fist under their noses and saying: "If you don't take me back into - your games, I'll lick the stuffing out of you." And as he insists that little John Bull was tlio boy who planned the scheme of isolating him, ho is going to light Joliu first. And Germany has grave reasons for her ill-feeling. She points to the arrangements between England and Franca, which have opened up Morocco to French "penetration" — though- Germany claims interests there herself— and have tightened England's grasp on Egypt; to the Anglo-llussian condominium which has divided Persia into spheres of influence — although Germany is herself rushing a railway to the Persian Gulf ; to the arrangement between Great Britain, France, Russia, and Japan to guard the status quo in the Far East in which Germany was not even consulted, although she considers herself by virtue of her annexation of Kiaochow, a Far Eastern Power. Now it is this very policy of ignoring her that Germany most bitterly resents. Her aim is to place hcrrelf in a position where her approval and consent must be obtained beforo any treaties are signed, any coalitions formed, any alliances concluded, before any annexation or protectorates or spheres of influence are made by any European nations. In simpler words, and those once used by the Kaiser himself, nothing shall happen in the world without Germany. Therein you hare tho German policy, short and sharp.