Excerpt from Germany as It Is to-Day A friend of mine, Governor of a Crown Colony, a man of great experience and erudi tion, recently wrote to me as follows, I shall look forward to your book on Germany, but can one speak freely? If you say anything for the Germans, you are labelled a pro-german at once. If you say anything against them, you are accused of making more bad blood between them and us. What is wanted is a cold, impartial statement of fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.