While we are on this subject we should like to
suggest that the Government will be guilty of a great mistake if they do not make the fullest possible use of the long official experience of Sir Eyre Crowe. Sir Eyre Crowe has been the object of a great deal of preposterous persecution. This persecution was either malicious or ignorant. Let us charitably assume that it was only ignorant ; but, then, what a degree of ignorance ! Every one *ho has taken the least trouble to inform himself about foreign
affairs must know that not only during the war, but before the war, there was no one who was a more penetrating judge of German intentions than Sir Eyre Crowe. Before the war he uttered his warnings again and again ; but, unfortunately for the country, they were disregarded. No one at: the Foreign Office could read the German character more accurately or predict the outcome of German political conditions more faithfully than he could. His work has been invaluable, and if the Government do not entrust him with some of the highest functions in the coming days it will mead, we fear, that they dare not employ the right man because they are afraid of clamorous and ill-informed busybodies.
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