| Show NATIONAL HATREDS publicists are predicting a long harvest of international hatreds as the result of the present european war attempts are even being made to capitalize these hatreds into economic war to follow the end of the existing conflict As a matter of fact international hatreds and f friendships are the most ephemeral and perishable things in history the close allies of today to day are the enemies of yesterday and tomorrow to morrow sentiment and national politics never mix for any length of time as the present struggle conclusively shows friendships disappear at the first clash of interests hatreds vanish when national policies coincide nothing could have been more b bitter it than the mutual hatred of French frenchmen and englishmen during Napoleonic the wars yet in a few years they were fighting shoulder to shoulder against russia in the crimea twenty years ago they were again on the verge of war against egypt but today to day in alliance with russia once hated by gaul and briton they are glibly talking of eternal friendship sanctified by inu mutual sacrifice in the amm common on cause fifty years ago after austrian hate of prussia flamed white hot and it was warmly returned today to day they are she th their air blood for common ideals our own national friendships and hatreds have similarly varied with the passing years as dictated by economic interests unless history absolutely reverses itself it is folly to predict that the national alliances of today to day all continue for any length of time after the war the proposed economic boycott is doomed to failure from the start there is no sen sentiment t ment in the pound the mark or the franc and bitter as is the hatred of and briton today to day there is every historic precedent to back the prophecy that the changing interests of the next decade or two may make them th e warmest of international friends nothing is so evanes evanescent cert as national hatreds hat reds nothing so fleeting as national friendships could any thing elso so well demonstrate the hideous folly of war |
