South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 327, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 23 November 1915 — Page 6

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How the French, as a People, Have Been Misunderstood by the English

"We Had 'Begun dimly to Realize That Frenchmen Are Cool in Defeat. We Shall Know a Great Deal More About Them When We Understand How and Why They Are Cool Even in Triumph." By 0. K. Chesterton. WHEN the news camp that the British had broken past the Chapel of Our Lady of Consolation and held the heights above Lens, while at the same time the French were driving the enemy through the dust of the Champagne, there were some who really underctood for the first time that the "understanding with France" was a fact in practice as well he sentiment. It seems extraordinary enough that such r.cws should be new to anyone; but it was. The chief organ of our pessimist press had actually fuggeated, in all seriousness, that the heads of !hc allied commands should take counsel- tofcther; but shook its head over the lmprobeUiy of so bold a suggestion being accepted. It might well have urged, with equal appropriateness that trenches be provided for the protection of our troops, that the recent invention known as the bayonet should be attached K rides during hand-to-hand' conflicts, and that p map of Northern France might be very useful to our Generals at the front. We should bo prepjred, not only to agree with our gloomy journalist upon these points, but even to lighten his gloom by assuring him that these things had occurred to other great minds, and even been . partially carried out. But there was one part of the news which would still, in some corners of England, cause & deeper if a more subconscious surprise. It ia the repeated report, by all observers, of the "calm" of Paris after the victory. We had begun dimly to realize that Frenchmen are cool hi defeat. We shall know-a great deal more about them when we understand how and why they are cool even in triumph. I believe our false notion of the French . character was very largely founded on the French cabman. And I believe that being to be n subtle, If not sensitive, spirit, who is much misunderstood. Not all English travelers, perhaps, fell into the merely verbal error oZ the olc- lady who observed a certain coldness In the cccher she had ceremoniously addressed as cochon. The type has been better appreciated. Ill tho admirable mystery tale of "Trent's Last Cose" Mr. IJentley's hero did Justice to the French cabman's cultured vocabulary, safeguarding hlni3Plf with the remarkable quotation from Keats: "Happy is Kngland, sweet her artless cabmeD; enough their simple loveliness for me." That deep-minded democrat, Mr. Dooley, Faid that if ho were a Frenchman he would be rfraid of nobody but the cab-drivers; , "and I Trouldn't be afraid of them long, for I'd be a cabdriver meself." But it has not yet fallen in the vay of any social philosopher to analyze the French cabman; if any had done so, he would have destroyed many falso ideas about the French citizen. For instance, the three main impressions formed by the poor old woman about lfer cochon probably were: (1) that he drove wildly; (2) that he shouted, cracked his whip, and kicked up a general shindy; (3) that ho was rude. The old woman reported this to the ether old women who write authoritative books on foreign policy and imperial travel, and the rf suit was a picture of the Frenchman as merely excitable and undisciplined, so that to speak of the French calm still seems like a paradox. But in truth our old mistake about France falls under threo heads which exactly correspond to the three facts mentioned. First, xany differences are accidents. They arc mentally unfamiliar, but morally colorless. Thus much of the impression of wild driving (though tot all) comes from the fact that the rule of the . road is reversed, and he who is on the right is in the right. This mere unfamiliarity has had cany Actions. All kinds of jests, criticisms, suggestions of vanity, looseness, stinginess, slackness, gaudiress have been deduced from the French soldier's red trousers. Even Mr. Dooley had a lung at them. But, after all, there could hardly he a very profound spiritual chasm between the toldler who wore a blue coat with red trousers and the soldier who wore a red coat with blua trousers. Or again, it is a French custom to y.f-ep the windows of a restaurant mostly closed. I do not know the reason; very likely there is nc reason. But certainly the reason cannot be a cloistered terror of the mere open air, for the tame Frenchman will take his whole dinner and dmner-tablo bodily out into the street, at which tho English old lady, while untravelled, might possibly fidnt. A man cannot be hiding behind Bindows when he can do without walls. Much ' rf tho misunderstanding, then, is mere local . custom, like the rule of the road. Next comes tho matter of noise. To some it will seem a paradox: but the noise does not come from the Frenchman being nifTled, but raher from bis being unruffled. He has no nerves, as we say when we mean that he has very good ones. His amazing howls do not amaxe bim. Noise Is the normal, like the murmur of breezes or the roll of the distant river. His sigh is a hullaballoo. his whispers & horrible yell. His fathers have followed th cannon in a hundred campaigns. it is true that there mingles with this neiToua immunity a touch of fierceness that i3 not so much emotion as merely linpatiencs. Often it is an Intellectual Impatience one might almost say a cold impatience. It is tha Impatience of a chess-player who cannot be bored with a long game when he already foresees tho last move. But this abruptness. oinetimes approaching to brutality, has less to do with the nolsi.ieis than that other element of invulnerability in the nerves. Tha streets of Paris do not solely cr primarily prove what a racket the French can raise; they prove even more what a racket the French can endure. And In the matter of politeness, the tnttn will again appear paradoxical. What makes a poor Frenchman uncivil is the same thins thai makes him civil. It Is the civil, or civic, idea the idea of human equality. Many rich old ladles from more aristocratic countries do really talk as if cochon were pretty muci the 6ame as corher. If the poor man strikes back it is not to destroy the social structure, but rather to preserve it. Ho keeps his end up. of courpe. since human nature Is imperfect, that the combination of the democratic isstir.ct I describe with the temperamental irasatfenco I hT3 already noted doea product

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viiesieriun i minis Prussian Apologies Prove a Decrease in Their Confidence England's Brilliant Essayist Has ä Theory That Germany's Excuses for Seizing Belgium Really Mean She Knows She Will Have to Relinquish It in the End. By G. K. ChestertonThe Noted English Essayist. T HE North German is a human fcelnit Hitherto, as a rule, he has talked as it he were something more, and anted as I If he were something less. But he is a human being; and anyone who recognizes the human bond which he has not always recognized will certainly make him welcome not sneerlngly, but quite sincerely to the natural pleasura which he takes in any good news he may get from the front. Nor is there any need to be vain of such fair-mindedness, for it is made easier for us by the knowledge that, while no has got many things which he is glad to have, .he has hardly anywhere got what he wanted. It is suggested that more than one of the Roman Kmperors was In the habit of having a triumph whenever he could not have a victory. And certainly when the besiegers took Warsaw, for instance, the triumph was as empty as the town. I wrote here lately that th Prussian was a thief from the beginning: and it was not , a denunciation, but a sober historical sum mary. But he certainly seems to be a thief who steals Jewel cases rather than Jewels". A realistic military estimate of the posture and provisionment of the fighting leads to conclusions very different from those of a few panic-stricken reporters in the crowd, wno raise an outcry whenever the pickpocket of Potsdam cuts out an empty pocket. It Is not my province to write of such things; and, Indeed, there is in the mere moral atmosphere outside military science proof enough to make us If, not easj In our minds, at least quite certain ' that the Prussians are the reverse of easy in theirs. Is the Prussian Begging for Mercy? There are a treat many signs by which even a civilian can be certain of this. But for anyone with historic memory and judgment, there is one proof, of Prussian failure which Is at once startling and final. Properly realized, it is more cataclysmic than the Rhine choked with corpses, the Kaiser cutting ais throat, Berlin burned to the ground, and the Kiel Canal blown up. ships and all. The Prussian has spoken of Justice. When he speaks of justice he has begun to hope for mercy. For more than a hundred years he has spread and sunned himself in the Summer of mere success; he has openly exulted in his freedom from scruple and religious restraint; he Las pointed to his perjuries as other men point to their promises. He has never dreamed of answering the charge that he was false and cruel save by suying that he is cunning and strong. He has never pretended to recognize any law, human or divine, save in the sense that possession was nine-points of it. When he ne. eins to defend himself on the tenth point. It is proof that he has little left but a tenth. When he Prussian says he has the right to do a thing, you may -c prety sure that he has no lonze'r'the migh: to do it. And this is proved by one fact which Is starIngly self-evident: the fact that all his apologies ere afterthoughts. Some of his less cautious controversialists, for instance, claim that after the conquest of Brussels the conquerors found evidence that they had been the object of some conspiracy which seems to have been nttle more than some preparations for defense, which have Ken proved ery necessary. But. tn any case, it Is as If a burglar claimed to hve found an unfriendly letter about hlmsel! long with the bank notes in a locked deik. Even if he were right, he would have no right to be right. Treason and ffr' Aggression Without Precedent. It is self-evident that these are excuses made up long after the crime, and therefore .orthless excuses. But they are growing more frequent, more apologetic, and more confused every day, as the German strength slowly weakens. And already there Is a general tendency In the German press to represent the wholo quarrel as some sort of misundotstanding, at least as a matter for argument. If not for arbitration. Historically, of course, such a view Is nonlense. It would be nonsense if Sir John Jelllroe said ho happened to be on a ship because his doctor had recommended a sea-voyage. It would be nonsense, because It would ignore tho whole historic cl aim of the British upon the sea. It would be nonsense If General Joffre said he happened to bo standing at tha junction of the Sambro and Meuse because he admired the natural beauty of those rivers, and was considering their suitability for that canal boat in which he Is said to purposo passing his declining years. It would be nonsense because It would Ignore the whole historic peril of France at that particular point. And it is nonsense for the Germans to Ulk belatedly at if they had blundered into Belgium or into the war because they thought France or Belgium wa3 doing something neither of them ever ' did. It is nonsense because It ignores the whole historic policy of Prussia along the lines ?f which she has struck again and again.. With her It is a matter of principle to be unprincipled. Frederick tho Great considered it a piece of highly rrtistic humor to enter nis Austrian enemy's possessions in .advance 'jf his own declarations of war, as if he had run on before to say it was coming. Bismarck not only tore up his own scraps of paper, out cheerfully forged other people's scraps of paper, when he wanted to precipitate war. The Germans evidently do not quite understand what It U vi r9 saying about them. When we say they wr guilty of extraordinary and unprecedented treason and aggression, we mean, ct jour. that thestj things were unprecedented ind itruordlnAry among civilized people. We do not aaa that they were unprecedented or sztraordlnary among barbarians. We did not know, nAturally, whether Prussians would Li these particular things or not W only knew that nobody in Euros except

The Policy and Aims of the Germans from the British

Point of View "The British People as Well as the Other People of Europe Are Faced by the Peril of Being Conquered by the German Nation Which, Under the Hohenzollerns, Has Become a Huge Military Caste." By Christabel Pankhurst. THESE words should be pondered by those in our midst who do not yet realize what this war means. It is in very literal truth a conflict between freedom and slavery. If ou.- non-realizera cannot believe that when Mr. Choate tells them so, perhaps they will allow German testimony to convince them that onlj by the victory of the Allies can British freedom be preserved and that German conquest means slavery. Long ago Bismarck gavo us our warning when he declared his policy to be to establish tho supremacy of Germany In Europe and of the German race in the world. Prince Bulow, one of Bismarck's successors In the Chancellorship of the German Empire, said In 1904: "The King must be at the head of Prussia, Prussia at the head of Germany and Germany at the head of the universe." Other Germans loss official, but not less authoritative, because their utterances ar made with official German approval and encouragement, have been even more explicit One of the leading writers on Pan-Germanism has suld: "In a short space of time the world will see this. The German flag will shelter 86,000,000 of Germans, and they will govern an empire of 139,000,000 Europeans." And how will tho 139,000,000 of Europeans be governed? The same Pan-Germanist gives the answer, saying: "Without doubt the Germans will not people the wholo of the New German Empire that constitutes it, but they alone will govern, they alone will exercise political rights. They alone will be able to acquire the land. They will haveas in the middle ages, the feeling of being a people of masters, while they will condescend to allow inferior work to be executed by the foreigners subject to their domination." Yes, It Is slavery slavery conducted on barbaro-scientiflc lines to which the Germans have condemned the world and this war is their attempt to execute the sentence. Our American sympathizer, Mr. Choate, is indeed right when he says, "This war is a conflict between freedom and slavery." A German "United Spates of Europe." Some British worklngmcn have hesitated to work and fight with might and main to drive the Germans back, fearing thereby to lose rights which labor In this country has acquired or hopes to acquire. But have they read Herr Ballin on the British labor question? He says that the German workman works longer and harder than the British workman does, who. compared with the German workman, is idle. In fact, what the German people of all classes desire is to work less and grow richer by exploiting the non-German populations of the earth. . The British people as well as the other peo--pies of Europe are faced by the peril of being conquered by the German nation, which, under the Hobeniollerns. has become a huge military caste. Since they succumbed to tho tyranny of the Hohenzollerns the German people have entered Into criminal conspiracy with their ruler and constitute a menace to the freedom of the rest of the world. Those who are themselves unfrce are often 1 the worst enemies of the freedom of other3. for It Is ono of the most elementar facts of human nature that those who have resigned themselves to subjection rese.it the freedom of others. It is equally true that-those who have not the courage to assert their own independence as against their masters arc generally aaxious to find, someone else over whom they In their turn can tyrannize. It Is precisely there that we have one of the reasons for the willingness of the German people of all clsFses to co-operate with their Kaiser in establishing a German domination over the rest of humanity a domination according to which tho most humble German victim of Hohrnzollemlsm can yet feel himself lord over the Ecn-Gerrhans! The Gsrrnan pedants, erer the prime exponents of Hohenzollcrn policy, have let the cat out cf the bat. Thus Professor OstwaM rays that there ought to be a I nlted States of Europe with thKaiser cs President at its head. . In l3 Germans hope that thin-h defeated they may be able to Inveigle the Allies intocrcatln? a European system in which Omany with its favorable geographic position and its capacity for Intrigue, would manage to secure, predominance. Wo can just see it all! A committee of the Haldaaes and Crowes of all nzVons. dominated by the KaJser and his Ballias, Hcthnsann roa lIoItreS, I-ichnowskys and the rest. A new name, but the old. eld stoy cnlj infinitely worse! No. there is not any spoon lonr encash to mane It 2e to sup with the Kaiser, and if the Germans and their friends in this country Imagine that as the outcome of this war the affairs cf the world are fioin to be controlled by the Kaiser and certain other persons sittins round n. title in Berlin, they are greatly mistaken.

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