All civilized nations must be equally interested in the
maintenance of peace and in the establishment of the new international
order. Therefore, all neutral nations, including the United States of
America, must join the congress as signatories and guarantors of the
peace settlement.

17. The new democratic charter shall be placed under the guardianship
of a Supreme Constitutional Court. Such a Court would not be a secret
diplomatic Sanhedrin, but a democratic Tribunal. Such a Court would be
essentially different from the Hague Tribunals of the past, and the
democracies of the world would be directly interested in enforcing its
decrees.

18. There is one immediate sanction to the constitutional settlement
just outlined--namely, the Sovereign Will of the people of Europe.
Revolution is knocking at the door. Unless a constitutional charter be
granted, unless democratic government be firmly established in Europe,
it will be wrested from their rulers by the nations themselves. All
the signs of the times confirm us in the conviction that the only
alternative to the establishment of democratic government for all the
nations participating in the congress is universal civil war. The
peacemakers of to-morrow have it in their power not only to crush
"Prussian militarism," but to prevent an appalling upheaval which
would shake human society to its foundations.

APPENDIX

THE PRIVATE MORALITY OF THE PRUSSIAN KINGS

FREDERICK WILLIAM II.: THE HOHENZOLLERN POLYGAMIST

BY ALBERT SOREL

It is generally assumed, even by those writers who are most strongly
opposed to the sinister policy of the Hohenzollerns, that at least
their domestic relations present an edifying contrast with the private
immorality of the other Royal Houses of Europe. The world has been
made familiar with the Court scandals of the Habsburgs, the Bourbons,
and the Georges, and has heard little of the Hohenzollern Dynasty. But
that is merely because the "amours" and the family squabbles of the
Hohenzollerns are so much less picturesque and so much less
interesting than those of a Henry IV. or of a Louis XIV., and because
they have been hidden under a thick cloud of hypocrisy. The most
brilliant of French historians, Monsieur Albert Sorel, has torn the
veil from this hypocrisy and has laid bare the sordid story of
Frederick William II.

As an illustration of the manner in which the official historians of
Prussia have narrated the history of the dynasty