New Britain herald., 1916-07-29
GERMANY BITTER
 REVIEWING WAR
EnptieS VialS Of Wrath on Eng
 land for Trade Ambitions

has given to The AssOci Press. the following statement: Unlike the military situation 1t Is not easy to review briefly the devel- opments in the confused paths of po- Hucal events, but an attempt will be made in the following to trace the leading ideas connected with the po- litical problems of the second year of | the war.
 The world war was caused by Russia's aggressive policy, supported I by France's policy of revenge, but it was rendered possible solely by the l fact that England subordinated to her economic antagonism to Ger many all her other interests. | Whereas Germany's enemies re- | gard 1t quite in order that they de- mand territorial aggrandizements at wants Constantinople and Galicia, like France, who desires Alsace-Lor- raine and the left bank of the Rhine, and like Italy who seeks Austrian territory-they grudge Germany even that she strive to develop herself economically in peaceab1e competi- tion and they pronounce this an un- l pardonable sin against the worlds l order of things.
 1 They are unwilling that Germany should become great and strong be- l cause the other powers want to be 1 the economic masters of the world. 1 Territorial and economical aggran- l dizenlent has united Germany's foes in a war of destruction against us. 1 '"The second war year whose end l is now approaching has brought these true aims of our opponents into 1 clearer light. Tn Russia this is open l ly admitted, they having an under | standing with England, and want Constantinople as their war goal. In France there is war-mad cry for Alsace-Lorraine.
 England Drops Mask.
 Tn England, too, the mask has been dropped. It is openly admitted that Belgium was only a preteXt to justify England's participation in the war; which was undertaken only from self-interest.
 i "Germany must be destroyed. Ger l many shall nevermore raise her head 1 CNOIIoI11Sd1ly 1loI lillllloI 1ly' Ju ClIiS way Is the goal of our enemy more l clearely enunciated during the second year of the war.
 Ut is equally clear that the talk of a struggle of democracy against 1 militarism is only a catch-word used ] by our enemies to create sentiment and to cloak outwardly their real purpose of destruction. Assuredly there can be no talk of a struggle for the maintenance of democratic principles when one side sets out to destroy the enemy completely, in cluding the civilian population.
 And is England really the land of democracy she pretends to be-? Has not the entire development of England during the/war shown that England is drawing further than ever away from democracy?
 Moreover, if England had really resorted to war in defense of the rights of the smaller nations, as she fondly announces to the world, she l could without damage to her position 1 have answered otherwise than with the threat of destroying Germany. ! "Chancellor Won -HoI- weg's remarks made in the course of the year outlined German aims with l sufficient clearness. England there fore, wants a war destruction, a war to the knife, which, according to the plans of our enemies, shall continue even after the cannon is silenced; for their former talk about permanent peace that they wished to establish l has been drowned under the shout that Germany's enemies are raising over the Paris economic conference
 "It is not enough that the world must be shaken by a protracted ] bloody war. The world must not even thereafter enjoy a settled peace if the will of the entente powers prevails, for the decisions of the economic con- ference do not signify an economic peace, but a permanent economic warfare which never will permit the world to come to rest upon the basis of peaceful competition.
 This shows at the same time that the great words of the entente powers 1 about fighting for the rights of small Ter nations and international order are empty sounds, for when Ger nnany's enemies seek to control neu- tral trade they simply ignore the rights of other Countries and base not on the principle of right but upon pure might precisely what they al- lleged they want to abolish.
 Allies Disturbers of the Peace
 The second year of the war, there l fore, shows that our enemies are pre- cisely what they all along wrongly reproached Germany with being, namely, disturbers of the peace-Rus
 sia through her unbridled passion for l extending her borders England through being uncomfortable for dom-
 mating alone the economic world, and l France through her passion for re-
 venge.
 "The second year of the war fur
 ther proved that 1t is our enemies who