r to enter the conflict. Laughing in her sleeve she could
even give it out that her sympathetic neutrality would
sufficiently guarantee to her allies certain suspended
contracts of an economic nature. Neutral Italy furnished
Germany to a considerable extent with products of its own
land and others which were not unwelcome.

That the mobilization of an Italian army on France's borders
might have been able to decide the war as far back as
September, is a consideration which, in the face of this
hypocritical neutrality, one cannot face without driving
one's nails into one's flesh!

It was through the connivance of England that Italy weakly found
herself forced to enter the war against her former allies.

Sir Edward Grey found the way to do it. Italy learned that
England was no longer in a situation to hold the Straits of
Gibraltar and the Suez Canal open and was obliged to take
over the control of Italian imports. Even before this
British agents had control of the port of Genoa and there
was no doubt that through most irritating measures on
England's part which skillfully concealed the motive behind
them, a blow would be struck at the very roots of Italy's
existence and famine would set in. Presently the Italian
politicians and the crown were confronted with a dilemma
which left them the choice only between war and
revolution....

Not every people has the political government which it
deserves; the Italian people are the victims of a
government, essentially undeserved but traditionally
faithless.

But Mars is now shaking the dice and behind the curtain of
the future Revolution stands waiting.

Apologies for English Words

An indication of the height to which the "Gott Strafe England" feeling
has climbed in Germany is shown in the following announcement by the
management of Die Woche (Berlin):

TO OUR READERS!

Many readers of Die Woche have taken offense at the words
"Copyright by ..." (in English) and demand that this English
formula be rendered hereafter in German. This desire,
springing from patriotic motives, is easily understood, but
unfortunately cannot be carried out for the form "Copyright
by ..." is demanded by the American copyright law in this
form. If we did not print these words in English, which is
the official