NO PEACE WITH THE HOHENZOLLERN.
(To ens EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Why do the Entente Allies hesitate to say outright that which is implied in their official utterance as well as in Mr. Balfour's comment, that the war could not be ended by any kind of treaty with the Hohenzollern, but that his subjects must enfranchise themselves to be heard in any council of the nations? To be effectual this condition should be made as absolute as the refusal of Europe to deal with Napoleon or. of the Germans to negotiate with Gambetta. It should be published and distributed broadcast so as- finally to reach the German people, planting the seeds of revolution among those who must inherit some of that spirit which induced many of the best of a preceding generation, like Schurz, Pretorius, Osterhaus, and Von Hoist, to oppose, and finally to flee from, domestic tyranny to the United Statcse—I am, (We have again and again—we began in 1911—suggested this course, and pointed out how Germany has provided a precedent. In 1871 she declared that she could not treat with Gambetta and the Government of National Defence, but only with the lerench people. It was the National Assembly elected ad hoc which concluded peace.—Ee. Spectator.]
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