[The Kaiser's Chancellor, in an interview with the American journalist, Karl von Wiegand, accuses England of militarism, and alleges that we pursued towards Germany a policy of envelopment (Einkreisungspolitik).]
They mocked us for a peaceful folk,
A land that flowed with beer and chops;
Napoleon (ere we had him broke)
Remarked our taste for keeping shops;
And William, in his humorous way,
Thought that we must have all gone barmy
Because we joined so large a fray
With so absurdly small an army.
Opinions alter. Now it seems,