t that
promise will be carried out must remain doubtful. Her militia is some
protection for herself in case of a political conspiracy such as that
of Korfanty in Silesia, but is no menace to any other neighbouring
power.

Bavaria affects to be in deadly, daily fear of Bolshevism. "Under the
shadow of the sanctions, Communism was developing strongly," said one.
Speaking of the Russians, "Perhaps we shall all come to it," said
another.

A rich Munich Jew, a cinema merchant, wanted to adopt a Vienna orphan.
He wrote to Vienna for a Jewish male child, well-authenticated as an
orphan; he did not want the parents to come and sponge on him in later
years. The child was brought to Munich. Presently application was
made to the police for an extra milk ration on account of the boy.
Then the police discovered the new arrival. "What!" said they, "living
here without a permit! Application for permission to reside must be
made at once."

Application was made and permission was refused. The reason given was
that the housing shortage in Munich was too great. But some one was at
pains to find out the real reason. It was that the boy was a Jew, and
who could say--in twenty years, educated in the best institutions of
Munich--he might become a Trotsky or a Bela Kun or Bavarian Eisner.

"But why not a Disraeli?" said some one who listened to the story.
Permission was eventually granted.

One attempt has been made to seize Munich for the proletariat, and the
comfortable Bavarian realized that whilst he has a never-failing
stomach for good brown beer he has no stomach for revolution. The
great city is a monument of bourgeois enterprise. Business is more
than politics, and social conviviality than either.

S---- drove me out to the valley of the Iser, "Iser rolling rapidly."
We went to Grunewald, we passed Ludendorf's villa, curious credulous
Ludendorf, who took Winston Churchill at his word when the later penned
his appeal to Germany in the "Evening News" to save Europe by fighting
the Bolsheviks, and prepared a plan whereby the German army was
reconstituted in the strength at which in 1918 it was dissolved. We
surveyed from the hurrying car a fine park-like country, rich and calm,
and sensibly remote from Europe's centre. It was a lovely springtide,
and new hope fallaciously decked Southern Germany, as if all trouble
were over and all had been forgiven. We walked, too, in the gardens of
the Nymphenburg Palace where the