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must listen To-day. For the
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iaar sieh Grey. Asuuish,
Churchill and Lloyd George
Ina become the Great Crime.
net only against Germany, but
against all Europe. including
their own country. IL Is Tor this
reason, too, that !, nj an Amer.
lean writer with a firm and I'M.
plicit faith Ia the justice OF
Germany's cause. have not
ceased 10 maintain that the
British people, which in itself
had cherished no ill-wiIl against
Germany, were as much the vic
Tins and the dupes Of diplomatic
triekery as the unfortunate
Belgians. Their hate is some
thing artihcially enpendered
their fear and rancour have
their roots In an unfortunate
and wide spread ignorance OF a
great people, Their very virtues
we're cunningly played upon ii
order 10 enlist their sympathies
III an evil cause. The greatest |
enemies Of England to-day are
those into whose dishonest and
tricky hands she conhded her
destiny and prosperity and the
lives OF millions of her sons.
md now these meus--pressmen
md politicians-striye frantical-
iy, eyerately to pile wrong
upon wrong in order to hide the
horrible initial blunder,
Surely if the will of the
people be still a power in Eng
and, or ii Parliament be still
infused with the spirit Of liberty
nd free speech, the hour has
come for England 70 pause and
ask: WHY and WHITHER?I
The Continental Times is proud
10 publish the following brilliant
and thoughtful article by an
Engiishman, Mr.. Arthur B. Vol
land, and its sole regret is that
4 copy of it cannot be placed
INTO the hands of every nj and
woman in the British Empire
II. L. Orcllelle.
August, 1914, the British For
Minister, Sir Edward Grey, re-
ed 10 plunge Great Britain and
British Empire into the most
Ible war the world has ever seen.
final step--the full Consequences
have at last become evident
and the whole human
/, came as a surprise to everyone
pit the unhappy few who being
ated into the mysteries of Grey's
diplomacy, have to bear their
& Of responsibility for the awful
&c and carnage wrought by the
lwind OF international hatred
Ight into play by the heinous
.aiculation Of an insignificant
,rity of armchair politicians.
by was the perfectly loyal pro-
! Of Germany, communicated 10
Edward Grey by Prince Lich-
ky before Mr.. Asquith's notori-
philippe, branded by the latter
infamous? Why was ii held
from the British Par
emf? Because those Immediately
for the policy of Great
lin were convinced that a more !
opportunity Tor the over
of Germany could not well be
Yes, this was the sole
in for the Intervention Of Great Z
lin in a conflict which was no !
ern Of hers. !
reason adduced by Grey-the
ID of Belgian neutrality by Ger /
was a mere pretexf, for, l
Ks TO the diplomatic machina- j
OF the Entente, a coalition
ght into being by Great Britain :
4 instrument for the suffocation !
lie German empire, the neutral +
i Belgium was already q thing j
lie past. q
c watchwords employed by the /
ish, French and Russian press /
.opularise the cause of the En- 4
!" were chosen with a nice re- S
for the peculiar syrnpathies Of t
British public. Liberty, ina /
"the sanetity Of treaties,
Sc and the determination TO rid Il
pc forever of the nightmare Of il
sian militarismp and to preserve c
integrity of the Balkan states BY d
throwing the HGermano-M Magyar
nony which threatened TO en- b
them. were the wiIls-o-the-wisp /,
enticed the flower Of Britain's n
Iood into the miry swamp Of a h
enmity and rancour as deplor- v
ais they are unreasonable. p
YER in the history Of the British i
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