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but magnificently equipped troops with a machine-like
organisation behind them?
There is also the question of Dr. Sven Hedin’s anti-English
opinions, which are quite distinct from his record of facts.
But why should these not appear in this country where those
of Bernhardi, Nietzsche, Treitschke and Cramb have been
universally read and their publication applauded? His
reflections are of course intensely irritating to any British subject,
but they cannot possibly affect the British cause. On the
contrary, their publication will probably do good, for there
is nothing like a little tail-twisting to rouse the British Lion!
They afford only one more example of the truth that Lord
Rosebery enunciated the other day that “foreigners have
never understood Englishmen and Englishmen have never
understood foreigners.”
These opinions, however, though evidently accepted from
official Germany without question or examination, do not
lessen the value of Dr. Sven Hedin’s record of personal
experiences. For he is so obviously honest. Indeed, again and
again he naively records little facts which really tell against
his case.
Dr. Hedin’s personal position is not for me to discuss, but
I give his book intact, omitting only, at his own request, a few
passages dealing with Swedish politics of purely local interest,
and the British public can form its own judgment both of the
author and of his views.
If that judgment is unfavourable I hope it will not prevent
them from taking his facts to heart.
JOHN LANE
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