Germany herself, however, must play her part in bringing about
her inclusion in the League. At present she is making a fuss over a number of small preliminary points and the result is likely to be that she will not take her place in the League this session as she might easily have done. She has stood in the way of her own interests with her habitual inability to judge the thoughts of others. Geneva is in the mood to accept Germany at once. Germany would have much more power inside the League than she can ever, hope to have outside it. But this simple .fact—compared -with which the method of entry does not matter at all—though it is plain to all the babes and sucklings of Geneva, is hidden from even the wisest men in Berlin. It is a pity. All friends of peace must hope that Berlin will yet have enough common sense to refrain from hopelessly confusing every part of a simple issue.
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