NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THERE seems to be little doubt that the German delegates will come to London for the Conference to complete the arrangements about the German indemnity. It is true that Dr. Simons made an imprudent statement in the Reichstag, and seemed to threaten a refusal of the Allied proposals if not a general defiance. But from all we can learn Dr. Simons is a man of sense, and he must surely see where the true interests of Germany lie. The one path of madness is for Germany to antagonize the Allies by any truculence or craftiness. Dis- agreements in this country about the treatment of Germany relate only to the best methods of encouraging what is good in Germany and discouraging what is bad. A reappearance of Prussianism in Germany would unite us in a moment. Germany should remember this.
