Holland last week declined the Allies' request that she should
reconsider her refusal to surrender the ex-Kaiser for trial. In view of the persistently pro-German attitude of the Dutch Court and Government throughout the war, no other answer was to be expected from Holland. She is on the point of asking for admission to the League of Nations, but she has no real sympathy with its objects in so far as they conflict with German and Hohenzollern interests. The Dutch Note implicitly rejected the Allies' suggestion that the ex-Kaiser should be interned in the Dutch East Indies or in some other place remote from the German frontier. The Note hinted vaguely that Holland could "subject the freedom of the ex-Kaiser to necessary limitations" all the
— — better " on the spot." But it contained not a word to show that Holland would prevent the ex-Kaiser from returning to Germany to-morrow and leading the counter-revolution which the Junkers openly desire. The ex-Kaiser's presence in Holland remains a danger to the peace of Europe, and the responsibility rests with the Dutch.
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