Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New Morn: English Diplomacy and the Triple Entente; A Phantasmagoria in One Act
Sir James Matthew Barrie, the famous author of Peter Pan, has written a short dramatic poem in one act entitled Der Tag or The Tragic M an in which he characterizes the Kaiser as a lover of peace, but weak and under the in?uence of the Prussian Camarilla as represented in his minister. The emperor, urged on to war at last, signs the fatal document and Der Tag breaks when war becomes unavoidable. However poetic Barrie's little play may be, it is utterly false in its premises; it misrepresents the Kaiser and his policy, and is obviously written to exonerate Great Britain from responsibility for the war. The formation of the Triple Entente was but a preparatory step for a war on Germany which it was hoped could be finished quickly by a crushing blow dealt suddenly by the French and Russians without involving England in the evils of a war. We sub mit herewith a poem describing the situation as it appears to the eyes of an impartial bystander and which the author hopes re?ects the truth more accurately than Sir James Barrie's appealing sketch.
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