The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing in Thursday's issue,
furnishes an interesting commentary on the popular mis- trust of Germany in the United States. He traces it mainly to the Germanisation of a portion of Brazil, and dwells on the undisguised satisfaction with which the Germans refer to the success of this project. Thus he notes the issue by the Hanseatic Colonisation Society of an ethnographic map ear- marking part of Brazil, and refers to other evidence furnished not merely by the propaganda of the Pan-Germanic League and the German Brazilian Society, but by the utterances and publications of German officials and Members of the Legisla. ture, in which special stress is laid on the Germanising capacity of the colonists in South America, and the desirability of retaining a firm hold on them in their new home. Finally he notices the singular fact that the Germans have actually applauded the projected creation of a Latin - American Alliance, and draws the conclusion that if the spirit as well as the letter of the Monroe doctrine is to be maintained, the people of the United States may find it desirable to cultivate a little reserve in their relations with Germany.
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