This Spring during my stay in America I was continually attacked in the
American Jewish papers as the callous denier of the Jews. It was
nonsense, as is most of that which appears in print, but it proves at
least that it is not on behalf of my blood but on behalf of my mind that
I speak on this occasion. My sympathy is not with the Jews as Jews, but
as the suppressed and ill-treated.
I am the man who a generation ago wrote: "We love Poland, not in the
same way that we love Germany or France or England, but as we love
liberty. For what is to love Poland but to love liberty, to feel a deep
sympathy with misfortune and to admire courage and combative enthusiasm?
Poland is the symbol of all that which the supreme among mankind have
loved and for which they have fought."
These were my words and hitherto I have adhered to them.
Shall I have to feel ashamed of having written them, now that Poland's
future is being decided?
GEORG BRANDES.
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Commercial Treaties After the War
By P. Maslov.
[From Russkia Vedomosti, No. 207, Sept. 10, (23,) 1914.]
For reasons beyond my control,[2] I am unable as a member of the Free
Economic Association[3] to participate in the discussion of the methods
of raising money by taxation for the war expenditures. The political
group to which I belong may not give full expression to its views.
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