Here stands the culminating
type; he will copy the good German Gott--he is incapable of originating
anything--and will "do the same to France."
As far as lies in his power, he has done it; in the day of reckoning,
Germany will judge how he has done it, and it is to be hoped that
Germany will give him his just reward, for no punishment could be more
fitting. The rest of the world already knows his vacuity, his utter
uselessness, his criminal decadence. As his father was stripped of the
Garter, so is he here shown stripped of the attributes to which, in
earlier days, he made false claim. There remains a foolish knave
posturing--and that is the real Crown Prince of Germany.
E. CHARLES VIVIAN.
[Illustration: GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND!
"Father says I have to do the same with France."]
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PIRACY
In the summer of 1914 Germany stood before the world, a nation of
immense, and to a great extent of most honourable, achievement. Her
military greatness had never been in dispute. But in the previous twenty
years she had developed an internal industry and an external commerce on
a scale and with a rapidity entirely unprecedented. She had to build a
navy such as no nation had ever constructed in so short a time. She
seemed destined to progress in the immediate future as she had
progressed in the immediate past.
What has the madness for world conquest done for her now? She has made
enemies of all, and made all her enemies suffer.
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