The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
Writer Whose Article in Last Sunday.
Sun Caused Sensation Evolves
New Theory of This Phase of
Struggle and Sketches a Few
Pictures of the Earl of Rosebery

or Kitchener. Asquth Is a mild and
well meaning lawyer person with excel
| lent work-a-dly intelligence, absolutely
| unoriginal and yet endowed with "A very
considerable gift of sonorous phrases
| He loves a good dinner and good
| bottle of wine and follows the French
proverb which says that after forty
| one ought to keep the cellar door open.
Winston Churchill is an arriviste as
the French say, of considerable energy
and quickness, but he knows no lam
guage save his own, is without reading
or ray of genius; while Kitchener is
far past his best and has always, in my
opinion, found it easier to look wise than
to talk wisely. Still Grey is there. and
he Is a considerable person, with re-
markable force and elevation Of char
acter and some power of independent
thought.
lie has the head of a Roman General,
cut as sharply as a cameo. and is singu-
larry free of weakness. 4 courteous.
reserved gentleman, half athlete, half
thinker, he Is very good indeed at what
ever he undertakes. lie has been a
champion at tennis and keeps himself
always in the pink of condition. As q
young man he was very prudent eau
tious even. as he grows older he grow
holder, and that's an excellent sign. II
England does anything remarkable in
this crisis. the initiative will probably
come from Sir Edward Grey.
But while admitting that the British
have seemingly the better cards and
should win If they knew how to play
them, ] am far from sure that they viii
win, or rather am convinced that the
Germans Will make an advantageous
draw of it, If indeed they do not win
outright.
For their superiority in organization
and i'm lighting power Is only a symbol
of their superiority in morale and ma
tional enthusiasm.
Toward the middle OF September there
was an imprisoned call for volunteers
put forth by the War Office in Grea.
Britain; about one hundred thousand
men responded to the appeal in week.
then the enlisting fell off, as it came to
be understood how poor the conditions
were. When the news Of this volun-
teering reached Germany over a million
men offered themselves as volunteers
within three days, though their services
were not asked for by the Government
anu ihuStd ldu 10 ne TeIuSeu.
1t would be utterly impossible to ex-
aggerate the national spirit and enthu-
siasm of the Germans in this crisis.
That docile and disciplined people
showed itself capable of extraordinary
and passionate devotion in 1914 but in
1914 their patriotism has become a re-
ligious fervnr and world IN arms
would not shock them 1t is ridiculous
to talk OF ml.tarism in this connection.
The whole German people are with the
Kaiser n this war and so.emnly re-
solved to bring II to a great issue. Re-
Gently an American correspondent has
given an admirable description OF the
high hearted happy confidence of the
people. Soldiers going to the front are
accompanied by their women folk; but
there are no tears. no lamenting: the
word of universal use is "Congratula-
tons Those about to die for their
country are congratulated. those VINO
return wounded are congratulated also.
All Germans regard this as a defensive