Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
CANNOT Do JUSTICE
TO NATIONS RIGHTS
Professor Paul Rohrbach Thus Al
ludes to America, England
and France.
GERMANY AS WORLD POWER
When "Better Nature" OF Country Is
Allowed Full Swing, He Says,
World Will Get Entire Different
Impression OF Her.

BERLIN, August Sin his now
book. "Weltpolitisches wandcrbuch,.
the famous German political writer,
Professor DR.. Paul %Rohrback. says:
I'm reality. all the types of Kultur'
which America, England and France
are able to give the peoples of the
world are suffering from bias. lack of
depth and stupidity. Not one OF these
three great nations Is able to under
stand and do Justice to the true and
lasting rights of foreign nations. 1t is
their and ignorance which
prevent them from doing so, but thew
all walk n strut about clothed in
the garb OF the great and humane ideas.
which dazzles and fools the world"
Against this appearance DR.. Rohr-
pach proposes to bring into play "a
great, deep, moral universal thought
sprfnEinE from n German fountain
head" or the world Is to believe In
u.s. he says. "f IT is to become con-
WINGED that it's aud evolution
is safest In German hands, because we
alone have real respect for he in
diVldual, permanent characteristics of
every nation, we must give 1t positive
ana practical proof OF this fact and
~ III III IL become tho hnl-
walk of national individuality I'm the
service Of Kultur.' Under this banner
only shall we be able to conuuer and
this banner Is, after all. the only one
which agrees with our better nature.
our readiness to do justice to every one.
our greater ability. in comparison with
All other nations in the world, to UNDER
stand and respect foreign spirit. for
elsh foreign national char
acteristics and foreign 'Kultur.'"
STRONGLY OPPOSED TO
TREATMENT or POLES
DR.. Rohrbach is strongly opposed 70
the principles which have governed
Prussia In her treatment of the polas
inc Alsacians and the Danes in
Observation-Disclosures, which are I'm stronr
contrast to German better nature.
When this better nature" is allowed
full swing, the world will get an on
tlrely different impression of GERMANY
ana THIS better nature must be allowed
full swing, because then only NAV tho
idea or German world power be real
ized. He outlines this German world
power on the map thus:
The elm nation Is to be llberat ed
from Belgian rule; Zeebruggc. on the
belglhn coast, is to be made into n
strohS German naval base: the Baltic
provinces and Poland are to be taken
away from Russia, to be partly in
corporated into the German empire.
partly made into n Polish state, which
must join a Central European fedora
tion reaching. via Belgrade and Sofia.
10 ConStantinoplc and the Persian gulf.
The SucZ Canal must be taken away
from England, and then the British
rule of the seas and the power of the
M~uscovites shall DO broken. forever.
Germany is the execution of the judg-
ment of history against Russia, the
only great nation which for more than
1000 years has produced nothing to
show that 1t Is Indispensable to the
moral or material 'kultur' of human
ity." England is an enemy of a higher
rank. and should be permitted TO live
alongside Germany, though the Eng
lish lack the great and Incompatible
qualities which constitute German bet
ter nature"
What DR.. Rohrbach demands is, ac-
cording to his opinion. merely Cor
many's rights. the more so as Ger
many. with great s~elf-control, has
abstained from using force to get these
rights. The war was an assault upon
Germany, he says. Tho German who
now gives i'm simply hetrays the great
German universal thought which is
the remedy that Is to heal and cure tho
world"