. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . ordains, that only that race which com-bines perfectly with the virtues of all,shall endure.* •This extract rightly belongs at the endof Mr. Albert E. Henschels article, WarHypocrisy Unveiled, found in Chapter IIot War Echoes. But it was a great temp-tation to put this bit of Philosophy onWar (rom under PhUosophy onthe War.—Editor. L. E. M. Is it true that as ananswer to the action of England andFrance in prohibiting the productionof the compositions of Wagner andother leading German dramatists andcomposers, Germany has barredSha
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . ordains, that only that race which com-bines perfectly with the virtues of all,shall endure.* •This extract rightly belongs at the endof Mr. Albert E. Henschels article, WarHypocrisy Unveiled, found in Chapter IIot War Echoes. But it was a great temp-tation to put this bit of Philosophy onWar (rom under PhUosophy onthe War.—Editor. L. E. M. Is it true that as ananswer to the action of England andFrance in prohibiting the productionof the compositions of Wagner andother leading German dramatists andcomposers, Germany has barredShakespeare? It is not. The question was raisedin Germany of adopting this retali-ating measure, but was unanimouslyopposed by the leading Germans con-sulted and was consequently those most emphatic in theirstand for the continued productionof Shakespeares plays were Profes-sors Harnack and Max Liebermannand the Chancellor, Dr. v. Bethmann-Hollweg. Shakespeare will be playedas usual.—Herman Ridder. SOME PROPHECY ON RESULTS OF THE WAR 343. XAKIXG DEPARTURE AFTER RECOVERY(By Courtesy of the Chicago Abendpost) GERMANYS DESTRUCTION ASFORETOLD BY A FRENCHMAN. In Major de Civrieuxs book, La finde Vempire allema/nde.—La iataille duChamp des Bouleanix (Paris andLimoges, Henri Charles-Lavanzelle,1912), we gain an interesting insightinto the Belgian neutrality question asseen through French spectacles, and weget the impression that the invasion ofBelgium by Germany was not only ex-pected by France but ardently hopedfor in order to make an end of Ger-many. The book gives an imaginary pic-ture of the end of Germany in the nearfuture. This takes place in the fol-lowing way: After the German fleethas been annihilated through a suddenattack by the English fleet, following,as the book says, the example of Japanin the Russo-Japanese war, without anyfurther declaration of war, the invadingGerman armies are defeated by theFrench at Apremont, southwest ofMetz, then at Neufcha
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