Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-21
DECLARE THEIR COUNTRY
{ IS GROSSLY PROSECUTED
Germans Blame England and Amer
lea That War Goes On,
Never Germany.
ADMIT NO RESPONSIBILITY
Their Great Desire Is That War
Shall Be So Ended as to Save
Prussian Regime From Humilia.
ton Of Repentance and Confession.

Shall Be SO Ended as to Save
Prussian Regime From Humilia.
ton Of Repentance and Confession.
aY PROFESSOR GEORGE d. HEBRON.
GENEVA. SWITZERLAND, October
'21.--Germanys peace missions to
Switzerland are so numerous, the pro-
cession OF them so continuous. that
they constitute a veritable clinic for
the observation OF the German mind;
especially do they present an excep-
tional opportunity for the study of the
TO the war.
The first and least difficulty the ques-
toner of these messages observes.
see Of aSs ntasence is na the
absence of all sense of responsibility
for the wars commencement. its con-
cussion. without regard to the mes
senger's intellectual repute. or his high
or low qi Pm degree besss With his
stood and wronEed. even to the extent
Of Piteous maftErdom: To this as.
holds. even when it is accom pa MED BY
admissions. always beggarly and equiv
s ssslI; that Germany herself may have
she was rsmiss,, mind You. It was. be-
cause Of receptions practiced by ieal-
Gus neiEhborS upon this all mo trust
full. too chiidlike people. The mes
eenger places the responsibility for
the wars ending OH on-gosng upon
many.
Moreover. Germany must be pre-
served from discovering that the re-
spcnsibiiity is hers. The war must be
so ended as TO save Germany from the
humiliation of repentance and confess
son. The preservation OF Ci.arlnany's
national pride. more than the revcla-
ton Of righteousness to her people. is
basic in each mans quest for what he
conceives to be a better German future.
DOWNRIGHT BEREAVEMENT
on PART OF GERMANS
There IS more than evasion on the
part OF these Germans: there b. down.
right arrangement. Despite your will
ence and observation. despite your sim
cere and determined search For some
other and more desirable explanation
already stated-that the German brain
does not seem made for distinctions
defstand those distinctions In the the
mentality of this race. there is no limo
OF cleavage between the base and the
side: and the faithful and honorable and
truthful on the other You confront
only a ponderous and impenotrable fog
and serpentine cunning. You find. in
even the most eminent German pro-
the more surely you seem TO find it
an intellectual drivel and tricllery so
incEeolple as 10 create conviction of
moral imbecil'ty. Or often. in t. wing
to follow them. you feel yourself wan
dering in realm Of solemn and mex
plicable spiritual idiocy.
POLITICAL ARROGANCE
STRIKES ONE DUMB
quality of the Germans mind is
manifested in his method of political
a aEIY iib and p peiT1Hs He negns Tsu
until you become accustomed to il
strikes you dumb. But when You take
prepare for it, when YOU draw az across S1sa
Las then Instantly his attitude
after a time that the German knows;
servility. The moral world That lies
between the two. between british dom
nation and british submission. is hid
ness Of it's existence. Whether it be
In the realm of government. OF military
sity method or public school instruc-
ton. the German knows only unques-
uoned command or unquestioning ohe-
or create manliness. that require moral
candor or directness. that provoke
sp,risa ads in,ssrity AND statu,e-thsse
are unfamiliar 10 the Eskimo.
gahGe and servility characteristic only
81 the individual; ii is the attitude Of
the the S Germ ee1lGse;hSi,y 9f ~ rrus
may nerpetrate unipaginabie insults
S an sasXaEeTie So upon sSher people, and
n,ent she receives the firs1 retr it TIVE
,ion in Kind. al once the voice Of the
beast deservedly whipped. And this
whine is the constitutive tonality OF
the German appeals Of to-day to ma
Yet by not few are We ominously
lineage is htgh-that the German Is a
man of like. nature with ourselves, and
i've ns' wth au fm we stt must ~ be
M r. pSSSnf s'm12shSF , Rs' m 1T i
conict and is 0 conciusi eIlzon IL lie the
whose coils hides the spiritual suffoca-
lion Of the nations. And the sooner
shall we know--what we do not Vet
WjfSS ,ha =! know,-~hy we are a, war
sooner, also. shall we be prepsr ED for for
certain divinely phenomenal decisions
a ma WI; be required Of us at the wars
II We make the table OF peace an altar
worthy Of the sacrifice already offered.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FLAW
IN PEOPLES EVOLUTION
Serutlni2ed historically, and present
ca BADLY, the German cannot he but
recGgnized as distinctly separate and
SdNoloElcai human SuPcc!eS. he is NOT
human III the sense that other men are
n human s9methins-it does not appcaI
logical flaw in the evolution ~ III.
pecp!e or else there was "A slip in the
making OF the Gcrman--somethine lnf,
out In his creation. Whichever II he
Whether accidental or genesial, some.
-@.thlng inherently wrong in his mental
: constitution. The German mind. in i.
present staEH o. development, cannot
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