The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-14
Won JAGOW RUBS
IT IN GOOD AND HARD
Reads George Bernard Shaw's MAN
OF Destiny" Descriptive OF English
man, in Reply to Correspondent.
ENGIISHMAN NEVER WRONG
Docs Everything on Principle-Ger-
man Foreign Minister Sarcastic in
Dealing With British Pretensions in
Averting Dfscord In Greece.
BY WILLIAM BAYARD HALE.

Berlin (via Sayviile, wireless). Nov
13,--I asked the German secretar,
of state for foreign affairs for COM
ment upon Premier Asquith's Guild
Hall speech. DR.. Won Jagow proceed
ed to read sonorous extracts from the
British prime minister's speech about
English love Of small nations, de-
votion to the torch of liberty. sacri-
fees for the freedom OF Europe, and
so forth.
The secretary picked up volume
OF George Bernard shaws play. The
Man OF Destiny" and read to me the
following words which the British as-
thor puts into the mouth OF one Of
his characters:
When an Englishman wants any
thing, he never tells himself that he
wants 1t. He waits patiently until
there comes into his mind the burn
ing conviction that It is his moral and
religious duty to conquer those who
have the things he wants. He Is never
ut loss for an effective moral at
titude. As the great champion OF
freedom and national Independence.
he conQuers and anrexes half the
world and calls it colonization. When
he wants a new market for his adul-
terated Manchester goods. he sends
missionary to teach the natives the
gospel Of peace The natives kill the
missionary. He flies to arms IN the
defense of Christianity, fights for It,
Nd In MN y Nr haavAn'm a
ward.
ITO defend his island he puts a
chaplain on board HIS ships, nails a
flag with a cross on It to the topmast
and sails to the ends OF the earth.
sinking, burning and destroying all
who dispute his empire OF the seas.
He boasts that a slave is free the
moment his foot touches British soil,
and he sells the children OF his poor,
six years old. to work under the lash
in hts factories for sixteen hours a
day.
Always Right.
There 10 nothing so bad or so good
that you win not find the Englishman
doing It. but you'n never and tho Eng
lishman in the wrong. He does every
patriotic principle. robs you on bust
ness principles. He would enslave you
on imperial principles. and he DULLES
you on manly principles, His watch
word is always duty and he never
forRets that a nation which let's its
duty get on the opposite side Of its
interests Is lost
As TO Greece
Thus far the English dramatist -
Or. Won Jngow continued as he paced
the room in meditation. Now let's
see what Mr.. Asqutth declares has been
done by the British government to de-
liver Greece from international dis
cord. His pretsns ions illustrate all
the shadows and revelations Of British
hypocrisy. with all the ingenuity OF
the British conscience. Mr. Asquith
adds that the real reason was to pre-
vent Greece from falling into the Ger
man net. with the same ingenuity OF
tho British conscience ne admitted
that he took certain drastic means &c
accom- plish this highly moral result
namely, he introduced war into q
peaceabie neutral country by landins
entente troops at saloniki. He per
suaded venizelos. for whom he ex-
PRESSES remarkable sympathy. to in
augurate a revolution. He persuaded
Greek troops to mutiny against their
conmanders and their government. He
took possession Of Greek barracks
Greek arsenaIs, Greek railroads and
telegraph lines. He refused to the le-
gttinate- goxernment-o Greece tbs
right TO communicate In code with its
rwn ministers abroad. He seuuestered
the Creek feet and decreed the expul-
sion Of fore gners obnoxious TO the In
terests NJ the entente.
And he ia all thts-with extremely
Ntt,~ result
"rhis I. what Mr.. As1utth describe
IS liberation Of the small nations and
achievement 81 the Independence Of me
onaresseS Balkan States.
THE fame ~ liberty which Mr. Az
auth would light again IN Fnllas II
the torch Of war and of bloody revo
luton"