G. G.

“ No one in his senses now-a-days talks of crushing the German nation; we are all agreed that the one enemy, common alike to the German people and to the world at large, is that immoral militarism which has been carried to cynical perfection by the Prussian Government. ”

“ Here one may read the interpretation by a gifted and imaginative mind of the true goal to which those who have not lost the idealism of 1914 are striving the substitution of public right as the law of the civilised world; the realisation of freedom for all nations and for all the men and women within the nations ”

“ Angell in this, that we clearly recognise the imminence and the reality of that danger, and can see no hope of any sort of peace until that incubus is finally and irretrievably crushed, and until the European comity of nations is infused with an entirely different spirit. Liberal opinion in this country is quite as alive to the danger from without as it is to that from within ”