SCENES IN THE GREAT WAR
"We are doing wrong, but it is necessary to do wrong, and necessity knows no law."
HYMNS OF HATE
About this time also we became conscious of a
fierce, delirious, intoxicating hate of our people
which was developing in the hearts of our enemies.
Before the outbreaking of the war it had been
Russia and the Russians who had (by inherited
antipathy from the founder of the German
Empire) been the chief objects of German hatred.
Now it was Britain and the British. Hymns of
Hate (our enemies called it "sacred hate") were
composed, recited, and sung:
French and Russian, they matter not,
A blow for a blow, and a shot for a shot,
We love them not, we hate them not,
We love as one, we hate as one,
We have one foe, and one alone—
England!
England was not moved to retaliate in kind. We remembered what the German Churchmen had said about our Teutonic brotherhood, and allowed ourselves to believe that this was only the call of the blood in the German race—the mad, bad blood of fratricidal hate, the most devilish hate of all. We also reflected that it
