Though not a very violent participant in the controvers about
Germany's " black record," I have always felt that a moil case could be made against her consistent policy for the par eighty years at least. A passage I happen to have come on the last few days in Dr. H. A. L. Fisher's An Unfinished Auto. biography has some bearing on that, in the picture it gives Germany not indeed eighty, but just over fifty, years ago.
" One day in the late autumn of 1890," he writes, " a Idiot member of the Historische V erein [at Gottingen] explained me with the utmost friendliness that Germany regarded Britai as her eternal enemy and predestined victim. We Britons hi won an Empire by good fortune when Germany was asleep, am we should lose it inevitably now that Germany was fully await Britain was Carthage. Germany was Rome. Even if the fist Punic war was not successful there would be other Punic wa to follow. Germany aspired to rule the world. Britain stool in her way. The stage was set for a great, an inexorali struggle."
This, says Dr. Fisher expressly, was a general, not I individual, view. That is a depressing assurance.
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