[iii]THE BETTER GERMANY
IN WAR TIME

[vii]“Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack offellowship is Hell.”—A Dream of John Ball.

“Either we are all citizens of the same city and warbetween us, a civil war, a monstrous iniquity to be forgotten,as soon as it may bring in peace; or else there is no cityand no home for man in the universe, but only an everlastingconflict between creatures that have nothing in common andno place where they can together be at rest.”—Times LiterarySupplement, Nov. 11, 1915.

“He had to be extremely careful, said Lord Newton atKnutsford last Saturday, because if he made any statementwhich did not accuse the Germans of brutality he wasdenounced by many people as pro-German.”—Common Sense,April 20, 1918.

“Des faits de ce genre méritent dêtre mis en evidence.Il faudrait, dans ce déchaînement d’horreurs et de haines,insister sur les quelques traits capables d’adoucir les âmes.”—LaGuerre vue d’une Ambulance par L’Abbé Félix Klein.

“Hate as a policy is either inadequate to deal with thecrimes (real and invented) of our enemies, or, if adequate,so recoils on the hater that he himself becomes ruined as amoral agent.”—G. Jarvis Smith, M.C. (late Chaplain at theWestern Front). Nation, Nov. 2, 1918.

“The belief at home that the individual enemy is an incurablebarbarian is simply wrong ...”—Second-Lieut.A. R. Williams, killed in action August, 1917.

“I will go on fighting as long as it is necessary to get adecision in this war.... But I will not hate Germansto the order of any bloody politician; and the first thing Ishall do after I am free will be to go to Germany and createall the ties I can with German life.”—J. H. Keeling (B.E.F.,December, 1915).