3 DECEMBER 1921, Page 3

The World's Work for December gives a further instalment of

the fascinating letters of the late Mr. Walter Hines Page, who was American Ambassador here during the War. He saw clearly from the first—as in a letter of September 22nd, 1914—that:—

" If German .bureaucratic brute force could conquer Europe, Presently it would try to conquer the United States ; and we should all go back to the era of war as man's chief industry and back to the domination of kings by divine right. It seems to me therefore that the Hohenzollern idea must perish—be utterly strangled in the making of peace."

Ile deprecated, even then the idea of a " peace without victory."