NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IN foreign politics attention has been concentrated during the week on the Aegean Islands and Albania, and on the German military mission to Turkey. These matters contain the elements of serious discord, and if we believe, as we do, that the relations of the Powers will remain peaceful, it is not because there is not ample material for quarrels, but because Europeans, whether as participants or spectators of the terrible Balkan struggle, have had more than their fill of fighting. Another trouble which, though less acute at the moment than the others we have mentioned, may prove ultimately to be a, greater anxiety to Europe is the friction between Servia and Austria-Hungary. It is a trouble which is more difficult in kind than any other to allay, because it arises from permanently conflicting ambitions. We must briefly summarize the facts of these situations.
