Then the feeling toward Germany will be
considerably better, and I may add that even now it is not so very bad
after all.
I make these remarks with due respect to Prof. Eliot and his views, and
with great reluctance for being compelled to enter the field against a
personality whose undoubted superiority I wish to be the first to
acknowledge.
BERNHARD DERNBURG.
New York, Oct. 4, 1914.
Dr. Jordan's Reply to Dr. Dernburg
Daniel Jordan is Assistant Professor of Roman Languages and
Literature at Columbia University.
_To the Editor of The New York Times:_
President Eliot is as fair a judge of the present European situation as
can be found anywhere, and is well qualified to explain the almost
unanimous attitude of thoughtful Americans in regard to Germany. Dr.
Dernburg, on the other hand, has been officially sent from Germany to
expound the German official version; both his point of view and his
treatment of facts are essentially un-American.
He says: "Americans object to the extension of territory by force.
Germany has never done that." Apparently he believes that the Poles
asked Prussia to become her subjects.
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