THE CASE OF ARCHBISHOP SZEPTYCKI
to do so by the knowledge that the Slav Society of Petrograd has taken up the cudgels for the Archbishop, and is appealing to the Russian Government for his liberation. Archbishop Szeptycki, it should be added, is not merely a member of one of the most ancient families in Galicia, but has, by his tireless energy and princely generosity, worked wonders for the education and general welfare of the Ruthene Uniate clergy, and fills, in the minds of his nation, very much the same place as that of the great Bishop Strossmayer in the cultural development of the Southern Slavs. It is all the more incumbent upon us to interest ourselves in the fate of him and his Church, because the Ruthene Uniates of Galicia form a not unimportant section of the community in Central Canada, where they have settled in thousands during the last two decades, and have become loyal and valuable British subjects.
We, of course, know very well that such action as the persecution of this distinguished Catholic dignitary does not even remotely represent the spirit of the Russian Church, least of all of those who, like the newly-appointed Metropolitan of Petrograd, are striving to promote intimate relations with the Anglican Church.
The Literature of Pangermanism (II)
Count Reventlow is well known in this country as the leader of the anti-English section of Pangermans. In spite of the limitations necessarily imposed upon the authority of all men who are dominated by a single foxed idea, his influence has been very great. Although his "History of German Foreign Policy" ("Deutschlands Auswärtige Politik," 1888–1914," 4th edition 1916) contains many obviously faulty arguments, the author is a political factor of acknowledged importance. But French and English critics are too inclined to imagine that the detection and exposure of mistakes and fallacies of which Count Reventlow has been guilty constitute a direct blow at Pangermanism itself. They do not realise that Pangermanism is not only a doctrine but a political aspiration, which derives its strength from an imaginative ambition and not from the strict logic of facts. Curiously enough Professor Andler does not
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