ENGLAND’S DESTINY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 146, 23 June 1931, Page 10

ENGLAND’S DESTINY

An English translation has been published of a book by Dr Herman Kantorowicz, professor of law at the University of Kiel, whose purpose is lu prove to his countrymen that Britain never aimed directly, or indirectly, at the encirclement of Germany. At riie close of the book no surveys the position of the British Einpir<_nnd the manifold possibilities af political and aeenomie, adverse to its security. “Should cnese dangers be realised, the course of the history of England would .ea<l her not to culminate in a second Roman Empire, but to decline into a second Holland,” he de dares. “Manp dangers will turn out to be imaginary, others may take a sur prising turn toward the good; yet others, again, now unsuspected, may appear above the horizon; to-day it is less possible than o’, er before to foretell the future, exactly and in detail The general trend of the stream of history can be discerned; it must remain obscure to a human observer for how long it will maintain its tenor. Thus there still remains the hope foi humanity, and the task tor England, that her future may prove worthy of her past.”