Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-01-12
Great Men Sign
Eloquent Manifesto.
ANGL0-GERMAN ACCORD
COMMITTEE MAKES APPEAL
Declare Blind Fog Of Prejudice Is
Spread by Sensational Enemies
Of Both Nations,

London, Jan. 11.A-Lord Avebury,
formerly SIR John Lubbock, president
of the Central Association of Bankers)
who Is chairman of the committee
formed December /, after the meeting
at Caxton hall, London, to promote
the Anglo-American accord, sent out
under the covering Of letter tonight
remarkable communication address,
ed to the press, signed by forty-one OF
the most prominent persons en-"
gagged in science, literature, art and
the learned professions of Germany,
protesting against the statements cir
culated in certain quarters tending to
create a sentiment which "would rem
der difficult and perhaps impossible
the task of those responsible for peace
between the two countrles.'
The letter continues: 1--WE regret
the form In which certain papers in
Germany as well as In other countries
on the continent and America vented
their feelings during the late war in
South Africa but we assert that these
attacks were not the outcome Of any
deep-seated hatred and that no i'll
feeling now exists in Germany agains,
England except that created from
time to time by what we feel to be a
misrepresentation of German aims In
the utterance OF English journals OF
high standing.
I'VE can state that none of us,
though living i'm widely distant parts
of Germany and moving In dif-
ferent spheres of German society
and Of party life, ever heard an at
tack on England seriously discussed or
approved by any man or section of
the German public worth noticing.
Neither have we met anybody In Ger
many who credited the government
with any intention or plan to war with
England.
Policy Only Protective.
"The naval policy of the govern
ment. whether approved or resisted.
is everywhere i'm Germany understood
to be directed solely to provide what
the government deems to be adequate
protection for the growing mass OF
German shipping. Certainly 1t is not
based on any purpose to enter a wan
ton contest at sea.
I'VE wish to. be on truly friendly
terms with England and with 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 mod
ern 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 a source of pure
spiritual and artistic inspiration.
A "FOg of Prejudice"
I'VE believe that on the continu-
ance of this intimacy between botf
countries depends to a great extent the
future and the fulness of European
civilization. We, therefore, call or
British men OF science. on Britain's
tartlsts and painters as the guardians
in England OF this heritage, and OF
the British press as the leader of Brit
ish feeling and opinion to discounte'
nance this prejudice which, autOmati
cally casts suspicion on every act o
German policy; for we are sincerely
convinced that II only this fog o
prejudice could be dispelled no steI
which the German government Is like
ly TO take and no feelings which thu
German people may harbor can eve
rightly endanger the friendship be
tween the two nations"
The document Is signed by the rec
tors and leading professors of uni
yersities and academies and by othe
persons or great prominence. I'M
covering letter Is signed by forty-on'
persons equally prominent In slmila
walks of life. 1t says.
'Tn welcoming this communication
from Germany our only regret Is tina
any doubt should exist concerning tn
recognition IN England of the essentia
solidarity of British and German civi
liZation.
war Would BE World Calamity.
We accept without reserve and witt
warm qualification all the assurance
nf our German friends and colleagues
We beg them to believe that we an
those fer whom we may speak are n
whit less annoyed and misrepresente
than they themselves by the affecte
helllgerency OF some of our journals
For us. Between England and Ger
many there Is no frontier TO be de
Tended War between the two pow
ers would be a world calamity fo
which no victory could compenslt
either nation and we emDhatlcall
declare our belief that the levity wit
which certain journalists occasional
discuss such possibility is the meas
ure Of their profound ignorance Of tn
real sentiments of the natlon.'