their attitude towards the foe. England was a great
civilised nation, and so was Germany. The war
would be fought in an honourable, straightforward
manner, as between high-souled enemies. Christian
charity enjoined on us to be especially kind and considerate
to those Germans who happened to be caught
by this sad state of things, in our midst. He had
heard these people spoken of that morning as "alien
enemies." For his part he would not care to describe
by any such offensive terms those Germans who were
settled in England in peaceful avocations. The war
was not of their making, and those poor foreigners
were caught up in a terrible web of tragic circumstance.
He himself had many dear and valued friends
in Germany, professors whose only aim in life was the
spread of "Kultur," not perhaps quite the same thing
as we meant by the word culture, for the German
"Kultur" meant something with a wider, more universal
significance. He hoped the time would come,
sooner perhaps than many pessimists thought possible,
when those friends would acknowledge that England
had drawn her sword in a righteous cause and
that Germany had been wrong to provoke her.

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