CONCLUSION.
One glance at the "Table of Contents" of Sir Hugh Clifford's booklet suffices to reveal the grossly partisan nature of the author, his extravagant prosternation before the joss of national megalomania and conceit — his rancourous and reckless abuse of all things German. "Grasping Germany," "German Brutality," "German Tyranny," "Despotic Rule," "German Savagery," "German Crimes," "Germans not white men," are a few of the grotesque and witless phrases, monotonously reiterated throughout the mere headings of this thin flat book of large fat calumnies. It was begotten of hatred, and covetousness, and the child does not belie its parents. Its worthlessness as evidence is established not only by what its author says and his manner of saying it, but by what he purposely ignores. For if his conception of patriotism will not permit him to see or acknowledge the crimes and shortcomings of colonizing England, he must surely be aware of the crimes and shortcomings of colonizing France 1 and Belgium — compared to which all German sins of commission or omission pale into insignificance. But are the voice and the hands of Sir Hugh Clifford raised or the whites of his eyes turned to Heaven to adjure the world to deprive these incapable and tyrannical countries of their colonies — and entrust
1 See "How Natives are Treated in German Colonies — and in French," A Reply to the "Journal officiel de la République Française." Published by Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, SW. 48.
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