The Prince and the Germans
The Prince of Wales's speech at the close of the British Legion's annual conference, supporting the idea that the Legion might send a deputation to Germany, since " there could be no more suitable body or organization of men to stretch forth the hand of friendship to the Germans than we ex-Service men who fought them in the Great War and have now forgotten all about that," has elicited a remarkable response on the German side as well as on our own. We hope the plan will go forward and render, as it may do, an appreciable service to international reconciliation. Sentiment is far• from being the only factor in foreign relations, but it is a very real one, and perhaps more so than ever since the late War left all the chief European nations suffering from dis- ordered psychologies. It is in the best of our traditions to shake hands with an ex-opponent, and the Prince struck just the right note in reminding the Legionaries of it. Some things, of course, have already been done in that vein, such as the reception given here a while back to General von Lettow-Vorbeck.
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