many
years. American opinion is almost unanimous in its opposition to Germany
for this one reason.

"Sir Gilbert Parker recently sent me a whole bundle of papers asking me
to judge England's case fairly and ask my friends in America to do the
same. I wrote back and asked him: 'Why do you waste stamps sending
evidence to America? America has the evidence, and if there has been any
anti-English feeling in America, von Bernstorff and Dernburg long since
demolished it.'

"The world has never witnessed anything so far-reaching as this policy
of insolence. Men who in daily life are cultured and fine, whose ideals
are high and noble, who have achieved names for themselves in
literature, art, and science--we all have many friends among them--have
become unconsciously tinctured with this policy. They are intelligent
men, but, by the gods, when they get on this subject of Germany's place
in the sun, they become paranoiacs! This idea of their pre-eminence has
become a disease with Germany. Germany is actually sick with it, and the
medicine that will cure her will be pretty bitter.

"I see that George Bernard Shaw presumes to announce that this policy of
insolence, this extreme militarism, has been just as prominent in
England and in France. Mr. Shaw is great fun and very wise about a lot
of things; moreover, he has lived in England a great deal longer than I
have, but just the same he is dead wrong when he makes such a statement.
I have many old friends in the army and the navy, many in politics, and
some of them are of the pronounced soldier, the militarist type. Not one
of them would ever dare to write such a book as Bernhardi has written,
and I don't believe there's one of them that would take any stock in a
man like Nietzsche. Mr. Shaw is dead wrong here; worse than that, he is
writing nonsense.

"We live from day to day hoping that the end will be the absolute
annihilation of the militarist principle, this get-off-the-earth
attitude.

"And what has all this," concluded Mr. Smith suddenly, "to do with art?
I'm sure I don't know. No one is thinking about art now."

"But you haven't told me where your sympathies are in this war, Mr.
Smith."

"Hey? I don't have any sympathies, as you see. I'm neutral as President
Wilson bids me be; I don't care who licks Germany, not even if it is
Japan."

*The Helpless Victims*

*By Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryee.*

[From THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 9, 1914.]

Hotel Windsor.

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