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u their crazy professors the proposition became
hdisputable Bernardo in his book upon the next
var cannot conceal the contempt in which he has
learned to hold US. Niebuhr long ago had prOphe-
ded the coming fall of Britain, and every year
vas believed to BRING it nearer and to make It
more certain
To these jauudiced eyes all seemed yellow,
When the yellowness lay only in themselves. Our
army, our navy, our colonies, all were equally
rotten "Od England, old, indeed, and corrupt,
rotten through and through" One blow and the
'ast sham would fly to pieces. and from those
pieces the victor could choose his reward. Listen
10 Professor Treitschke, who, above all
others, has been the evil genius of his country,
and has done most to push it toward this abyss
thing that is wholly sham@ he cried, in ailu-
son to our empire, Cannot, in this universe OF
ours endure forever 1t may endure for day,
but its doom is certain" Were ever words more
,-e when applied to the narrow bureaucracy and
staggering Junkerdom Of Prussia, the most art-
heial and ossihed sham that ever our days have
sen! See which will crack FIRST our democracy
o. this, now that both have been plunged into
he furnace together. The day of Gods testing
has come and we shall see which can best
abide it,
have tried to show that are in no way to
blame for the hostility which has grown up be-
"sen US. So far as it had any solid cause at All
has arisen from fixed factors, which could no
more be changed by us than the geographical po-
snon which has laid us right across their exit TO
'ae oceans Of the world.
SENTIMENTS WHICH MUST HAVE INEvITA-
BLY, ENDED IN WAR.
That this deeply rooted national sentiment,
'aeh forever regarded us the Carthage 70
anleh they were destined to play the part OF
some would sooner or later have brought about
az between Us, is, in my opinion, beyond al.
"1oL But il was planned to come at the mo-
gsnt which was least favorable for Britain.
wen English attempts at a rspprochement must
~ ohnd US TO the real situation" says Bern
'A We may, at most, use them to delay the
'Aary and inevitable war until we may fairy
s'ne we have some prospect of success. more
seSs sentence was never penned, and Que
N maFelhng which is the more grotesque
|aiGsm Of toe sentiment or the folly which
sseh q warning to the victim. For be II re-
sfed thai Eernhardis words are to be taken
seriously, fOr they are not the rawlings OF
w. ah-1erman monomaniac, but the considered
an. 'Ae foremost military writer Of Germany
e0. " IN touch with those inner circles whose
~, are the springs of national policy. "Our
R,i na greatest reckoning is to be with Great
,, said the bitter Trcitschke Sooner or
4, shock vas to come. Germany sat brood
a. the chessboard of the world waiting for
gsa'hg which should assure winning game.
ns elear that she should take her enemies
sis.tsg rather than together If Britain were
m Ahok am
49,, ,a would stand by her side. But IT, on aho
10 49,. '"e quarrel could be made with these
- No and especially with Russia, in the
c.. then il was by no means so certain
britain would be drawn into the strug-