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1915 · PDF PAGE 3

The World On Fire

…g all German but the cases! — and a boycott of German music. And it is England that can show a composer who writes to the papers that he will now "try harder than he ever tried before" to beat Bach and Beethoven and Brahms and Straus and Wagner! In the meantime he will refrain from the wicked and unpa- triotic luxury of Vienna steak! And since Kant thought two and two make four, for all true Englishmen they must make five in future. Have Englishmen forgotten their own Royal family? “The very dogs in England's court They bark and howl in German.…

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1915 · PDF PAGE 7

The World On Fire

…t in the mouth of every man in the street, was the destruction of Austria, the dismem- berment of Germany. They had got him. Even a worm will turn; even a Quaker will fight if he is cornered. Wilhelm struck. I write in English for those English who count, and this is the proper way to view the matter. Germany is a rich prize. We can capture German trade, German manufactures, German shipping, German colonies. We can exact an indemnity sufficient to cripple Germany for a dozen generations. We can split Germany into six kingdoms or republics, and …

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