Excerpt from Sidelights on Germany: Studies of German Life and Character During the Great War, Based on the Enemy Press

In this volume have been brought together selections from articles which have appeared in the Daily Chronicle since the early months of the Great War, and having as their object the portrayal of German life and character as these have been affected or modified under war conditions. In nearly every case the source from which the articles have been drawn has been the German newspaper Press or well-known and widely circulated German periodicals. The articles have been sifted with great care, and only those have been used which, in the judgment of the writer, throw needed light on the conceptions entertained by the German nation of their duty and world mission, on their attitude towards their enemies, on their ambitions and dreams of world-dominion, and on those remarkable psychological developments of the race which have evoked the amazement or horror of the greater part of civilised humanity.

A widespread desire has been expressed to give greater permanence to some of the more valuable of these Sidelights than is possible in the ephemeral columns of a daily newspaper, and it is to meet this desire that the present compilation has been made.

Much attention has been necessarily bestowed on the German dream of dominion in the Near and Middle East. Throughout this entire struggle Oriental Empire has run like a red thread woven into the fabric of their ambitions.

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