The German War

It is a matter of common knowledge one which a man must be blind and deaf not to understand that for many years Germany intoxicated by her success in war and by her increase of wealth has regarded the British Empire with eyes of jealousy and hatred. It has never been alleged by those who gave expression to this almost universal national passion that Great Britain had in any way either historically or commercially done Germany a mischief. Even our most bitter traducers when asked to give any definite historical reasons for their dislike were compelled to put forward such ludicrous excuses as that the British had abandoned the Prussian King in the year 1761 quite oblivious of the fact that the same Prussian King had abandoned his own allies in the same war under far more damaging circumstances acting up to his own motto that no promises are binding where the vital interests of a State are in question.