4 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 3

It was afterwards they failed. They averted their gaze from

instead of facing the evil and menacing thing which they had unearthed in Berlin. They were seduced somehow into accepting the paoificist's formula, "You are a party to a crime if you notice it." As an example of this spirit, we remember how, some five years ago, a Radical and pacificist newspaper pompously and pontifically declared that if war came "the hands of the editor of the Spectator would be more deeply imbrued with blood than those of any man in the country." And this merely because we urged preparation as the supreme need, and insisted that the Germans did not take the Sunday-school view of the world, but believed that blood and iron still ruled, and ought to rule, mankind I