to quote to-day expressions of Greek opinion from Athens
organs well known to be subsidised by Germany. Certain bribed
papers in Zurich and Stockholm, and one notorious American paper,
are used for this process of self-hypnotism. The object is
two-fold. First, to influence public opinion in the foreign
country, and, secondly, by requoting the opinion, to influence
their own people into believing that this is the opinion held in
the country from which it emanates. Thus, when I told Germans that
large numbers of the Dutch people are pro-Ally, they point to an
extract from an article in _De Toekomst_ and controvert me.

These methods go to strengthen the hands of the police when they
declare that in acting severely they are only acting against
anarchistic opinions likely to create the impression abroad that
there is disunity within the Empire.

Never, so far as I can gather, in the world's history was there so
complete a machine for the suppression of individual opinion as the
German police.

The anti-war demonstrations in Germany range all the way from the
smashing of a few food-shop windows to the complete preparations
for a serious crippling of the armies in the field by a general
munition strike.

Half-way between were the so-called "Liebknecht riots" in Berlin.
The notices summoning these semi-revolutionary meetings were
whispered through factories, and from mouth to mouth by women
standing in the food lines waiting for their potatoes, morning
bread, meat, sugar, cheese, and other supplies. Liebknecht was
brought to secret trial on June 27th, on the evening of which
demonstrations took place throughout the city. I was present at
the one near the Rathaus, which was dispersed towards midnight when
the police actually drew their revolvers and charged the crowd.

The following evening I was at an early hour in the Potsdamer
Platz, where a great demonstration was to take place. It was the
second anniversary of the murder at Sarajevo. The city was clearly
restless, agitated; people were on the watch for something to
happen. The Potsdamer Platz is the centre through which the great
arteries of traffic flow westward after the work of the day is
done. The people who stream through it do not belong to the poorer
classes, for these live in the east and the north. But on this
mild June evening there was a noticeably large number of working
men in the streets leading into the Platz. I was standing near a
group