"Who is it that introduced terrible hatred into this war
? It was the enemy. . . . This war is the product of a great ne,;ation, the negation of the German people's right to existence. . . . Envy induced our enemies to fight, and the war came upon us. . . . The
Parliantentarily- governed, demomatio British nation has en- - deavoured to overthrow the ultra-democratic Government which the Russian people have now begun to construct. . . . Only in -the West do we stillfight, and is it to be thought that the good God will abandon us -there at the last - moment ? " Thus spake the Kaiser in an address to the workers of Krupp's, published on Friday week ; an address in which skilful -rhetoric can scarcely have :hidden, even- from his audience, the admission of imminent defeat, and in -which -sickening hypocrisy surpasses all Imperial eloquence of the past. "The. German knows no hatred " ; yet it was the -All-Highest, among-Germans who decorated Herr Ernst Lissauer for his highly :popular "Hymn of Hate" :— "You will-we-hate with a lasting hate, We will never forgo our hate . . . We love as. one, we hate as one, We have one-foe and one alone—ENGLAND!"
The Kaiser's memory must be as bad as his conscience.
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