coloured by the interest of Germany in the
dissension between the two great Powers of Western
Europe. The anti-German feeling runs still very
high in France; her leading papers excel without
any exception in extremely harsh language against
everything German, and the great mass of those who
in former years had propagated the idea of a
Franco-German understanding are now dead against
it.

A similar feeling has step by step got hold of the
British nation. From not being very popular at its
beginning in England, the war has come to be
regarded as a greater national concern than any of
its predecessors. The frantic if not hysterical
outbursts of hatred against England in Germany
when the former decided to stand by France in the
war were at first not taken too seriously. But by
and by the unceasing utterances of spite have,
together with the known acts of German aerial and
submarine warfare, deeply reacted on the British
mind. The feeling is now general that England has
never before had an enemy so full of hatred
against her, so ardently desirous of causing her
irreparable harm as she now has in present day
Germany.

Even such socialist papers as the _New Statesman_,
which before the war had no anti-German bias at
all, have arrived at the same conclusion
concerning what may be called a German peace as
the French socialist politician whose opinions
were given above characterised it. In an article
called "The Case for the Allies," and especially
addressed to Americans, the _New Statesman_
explains in its number of December 30th that peace
with an unbeaten Germany would mean "Mittel Europa
from the Baltic to the Black Sea," that nothing
would prevent its expansion through the Balkans to
El Arish and Bagdad, that throughout this vast
area the authority, if not the suzerainty, of
Berlin would be acknowledged and that the small
European States north and northwest of Germany
would without any resistance--by the mere force of
things--come to be subjected to the dictate of
Germany. In the words of the _New Statesman_, as
the result of an inconclusive peace, "militarism
would be more firmly established than ever by the
record of its marvellous success and by the
manifest need for a military