Arizona republican., 1906-01-12
THE LITERATI
 GET TOGETHER
10 Preserve the Anglo.
 German Peace
A Communlcation Prepared to Show That There Is no Enmity Between the Nations.

London. Jan. 11-Lord Avsbur,-
 formerly Sir John Lubbock. presidenr
 or central Association of Bankers)
 who was chairman of the comrnitte.
 formed December l. after the meeting
 at Caxton hall, London. to promo,a
 Anglo-American accord, sent out un-
 der the covering of Q letter tonight a remarkable communication addressed
 10 the press. signed by forty-oae of
 the most prominent persons engaged
 In science, literature art. and tb,.
 learned professions of Germany. pro-
 testing against the statements circu-
 lated in certain papers tending to ere
 ate a sentiment which would render
 difficult and perhaps impossible thu.
 task of those responsible for. peace be-
 tween the two countries"
 The letter continues: We regret the
 form in which certain papers in Ger
 many as well as in other countries
 on the continent and America have
 vented their feelings during the late war in South Africa. but we assert that these attacks were not the out come of any deep-seated hatred. and
 that no ill-feeling exists in Germany against England, except that created
 from time to time by what we feel to be a misrepresentation of German aims in the utterances of English journals of high standing.
 We can state that none of us. though living in widely distant parts of Germany and moving in different spheres of German society and of party life, ever heard an attack on England seriously discussed or ap- proved by any man or section of the German public worth noticing. NeIth- CT have we met anybody in Germany who credited the government with any intention or plan to war with Eng land.
 ''The naval policy of the government. whether approved or resisted. is eV- anywhere in Germany understood to be directed solely to provide what the government deems to b. adequate protection for the growing mass of German shipping Certainly it is not based on any purpose to enter @ wan ton contest at sea.
 We wish to be on truly friendly terms with England and yrith English men, and this wish is general in Ger many. Every cultivated German knows and venerates the ties which bind both nations. To no other modern country does German civilization owe so much as it does to England. through Shakespeare. and England. from the time of Luther and HOlbein to that of Handel and Goethe, has found in Germany source of pure spiritual and artistic inspiration. We believe that on the continuance of ;his inti- macy between both countries depends to great extent the future and the fullness of European civilization.
 ''We therefore call on British men of science, on Britain's artists and painters as the guardians in England of this heritage. and on the British press as the leader of British feeling and opinion, to discountenance this prejudice which automatically casts suspicion or every act of German pol icy, for We are sincerely convinced that if only this fog of prejudice could be dispelled. no step which the German is likely to take and no feelings which the German people maV harbor, can ever rightly endanger ths between the two nations
 The document is signed by the rec tors and leading professors Of univer- sites and academies and by other persons of great prominence. The GOV cTllS lct(cT iS StSllcu -0AAr per sons equally prominent in similar walks of life.
 It says: ''In welcoming this ccmmu- nication from Germay. our only regret Is that any doubt should exist con- corning the recognition in England Of the essential solidarity of British and German civilization. We accept with out reserve and with the warm grati- ficatiOn all the assurances of our Ger man friends and colleagues. We beg them to believe that we and those for whom we may speak are no whit less and misrepresented than they themselves by the affected belligeren- ey of some of our journals For us. England and Germany. there s no frontier to be defended. War be- tween the two powers would be . world calamity for which no victory could compensate either nation. and we emphatically declare our belief that he levity with which certain journal sts occasionally discuss such rosSi- oility is the measure of their profound ignorance of the real sentiments Of the lation.'