3 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 10

Germany's Annexationist Aims. By S. Grumbach. Translated by J. Ellis

Barker. (J. Murray. 3s. 6d. net.)—This little book, a reduced and rearranged version of a Swiss collection of leading Germans' views on annexation, is well worth reading. The chapter giving the 'Socialist views is particularly instructive, for it flatly contradicts the Paaifieist theory thatthe German-Socialists eappore the Petrograd formula, "No annexations or indemnities." Herr Soheidemann and other prominent Socialists are shown by their speeches and writings to .be -entirely in accord with the popular German view that Germany must remove her neighbours' landmarks. Only a military disaster will convince the Germans that their dreams are vain and evil.