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hand, natives are said to immigrate into German territory from the Congo Free State and the Portuguese dominions, so that they cannot find the régime very distasteful. ” Page 258.
“Every Reason to be Proud.”
Frank A. Melland and Edward H. Cholmeley, in their interestingbook “Through the Heart of Africa,” (Constable, London, 1912) set down their critical impressions of a journey through German East Africa and summarized them thus:
•“ Probably some mean between the German rigidity and our own casual elasticity would produce the best results. We should study each other’s methods and choose which can be adopted with profit and which discarded. The Germans are openly and admittedly learning from us, with our greater colonial experience. We, on the other hand, need not think that we have nothing to learn from them . . . On the whole, considering how new colonial work is to tlie German nation, they have every reason to be proud of what they are doing in their East African Protectorate.”
Page 101.
Roosevelt’s Opinion.
Among those who have fulminated most furiously against Germany during the war, is Theodore Roosevelt. Yet he too may be summoned into court as a witness on behalf of the nation he has so unjustly aspersed, even though the judgment given below applies in common* to both the German and the English :
‘‘They were men of undoubted capacity and action: one had only to look at them in order to understand why Germany has developed so rapidly in East Africa. They are first-class men, these