If such things, such statements, were wholly untrue their final
effect could not be dangerous. It is the fact that these statements are approximately correct which render them so damaging to Anglo-French relations. Upon the basis of "Well, there must be something in what he says," Professor Ferdonnet and Lord Haw-Haw construct the more fantastic of their asseverations. Again and again does the Professor assure his French audiences that it is the City of London, the great Jewish bankers such as the Barclays, the McKennas and the Morgan-Grenfells, who have driven France into war for the sake of their own profits. It makes us laugh over here when we are shown the Aryan rabbits of Threadneedle Street in the guise of Hebrew pythons. Yet neither "the traitor of Stuttgart" nor Lord Haw-Haw is, as I have emphasised before, subject for merriment. They are each of them syroptoms of what might develop into an extremely dan- gerous malady.
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