The . British people agree with the most positive and logical
statement made by M. Painleve in answer to Lord Milner which the Evening Standard published on Wednesday. M. Painleve pointed out that the sincerity of the German people may be gauged by contrasting their talk to-day with the wild and vengeful language which they used in July when they supposed they were winning the war. Whether they love militarism or not, they accepted it with enthusiasm, arid up to the moment when the tide turned against them wanted to impose it on others. Whenever things were going Particularly well for Germany in the field, the Reichstag Majority made a practice of forgetting all the words of moderation which it had uttered in more doubtful moments. It went back on its own solemn resolution. It goaded out of officio Herr von Kuhlmann, who had spoken some measured words. And it accepted bodily the infamous transformation of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. The Ger- man people, as well as the German Government, have to be convinced that the making of war is bad business.
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