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English Business Morals. 263<br />

While all the recent international agreements have been<br />

actuated by the principle that only the official armies are to<br />

wage war, and that citizens are to be kept .as separate and immune<br />

as possible in their personal, economic, and financial<br />

relations from all the hostile proceedings, these singular English<br />

regulations, which might have applied to wars in the Middle<br />

Ages, are bent upon carrying war into the home, into the<br />

office, into the factory, into the most intimate family life, upon<br />

tearing asunder all those channels large and small, which<br />

modern intercourse has created between the citizens of the<br />

belligerent nations, all of whom stood so close to one another<br />

in relationship, amity, history and business life. All communication<br />

is to be prevented and interrupted, suspended by<br />

the ruthless hand of force. This is also the reason for the<br />

regrettable but excuseable hate which suddenly seized upon such<br />

wide circles of the German public, circles which had hitherto<br />

been inspired only by the friendliest feelings toward England<br />

and had in fact been altogether too much influenced by English<br />

traits and habits.<br />

Such is England's desire. Without the slightest national<br />

impulse towards war, and from the standpoint of a mere business<br />

calculation, she proceeds in the blindest manner to stir up passion<br />

against herself through this ruthless measure, merely in the hope<br />

that other nations might again be foolish enough to enact the<br />

role of sacrificial victims. Through this method of waging war<br />

she arouses the spirit of the darkest Middle Ages and finds<br />

herself confronted by a great people, outraged in all that they<br />

hold dear, and ready to pick up the glove of challenge flung<br />

so frivolously at their feet. By acts such as these England<br />

ignores the development of hundreds of years of human intercourse,<br />

and endeavors artificially to create conditions the limits<br />

of whose operation she cannot foresee, and which must in their<br />

final results inevitably avenge themselves upon those who<br />

prepare them.<br />

III. The British Bank of Northern Commerce sent an<br />

open communication to Ritzau's Bureau at Copenhagen at the<br />

end of August, 1914, in which it was openly stated that several<br />

German and Austrian Banks had made an attempt to cash<br />

their English checks and bills of exchange through the Scan-

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